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As equity analysts digested the disappointing renewal rates from 1 January, there was a growing sense that further price increases could be seen during the mid-year US renewals.
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Aquiline's recent acquisition of Armour rounds off a year in which a number of corporations both inside and outside the legacy market made a bigger bet on run-off for the years ahead.
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There are six complexly interlinked themes that can be used to tell the reinsurance sector's stories as we look back to 2017 and into 2018.
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Anticipation of a harder market has led around half of all Lloyd's syndicates to pre-empt their stamp capacity for 2018, taking total Lloyd's capacity to £32.3bn ($43.2bn) for the year.
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Domestic carriers that are heavily concentrated in the US will benefit the most from a cut in the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, with equity analysts estimating around a double-digit uplift in next year's earnings
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Workers' compensation insurers accounted for about a quarter of the 354 US P&C carrier impairments recorded over the past 17 years, according to AM Best data.
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Once in these pages I likened a prolonged soft market to a house party that gets out of hand.
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The third quarter catastrophes both heavily eroded P&C (re)insurance earnings and companies' excess capital, which led to an overall slowdown in capital management strategies
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US nationwide carriers recorded the largest net exposures to losses from the wildfires that struck California in October relative to the P&C industry's other peer groups.
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Primary commercial pricing remained little changed in the US during the third quarter, according to two recent surveys.
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Next year is on course to be the busiest since 2013 for start-ups at Lloyd's, following a swathe of approvals for both full syndicates and special purpose arrangements (SPA).
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While the P&C sector was a sea of red in the third quarter, some carriers performed better than others against the expectation of analysts - although investor reaction remained muted