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P&C (re)insurers in our coverage group that have reported third quarter results so far have revealed strong top-line increases, with around half of their gross written premiums (GWP) growth rates well up into double-digit territory.
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(Re)insurers within The Insurance Insider's coverage universe have overwhelmingly exceeded expectations in third quarter disclosures to date.
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With the recent hurricane season producing one of the costliest third quarters in history, underwriting profits have, unsurprisingly, been absent from Q3 earnings disclosures.
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Third quarter results revealed widespread shrinking in reserve releases, with the majority of carriers that have reported so far posting a decline in favourable prior-year development relative to their respective premium bases.
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P&C (re)insurers reported yet another quarter of deteriorating underlying margins, as third quarter accident-year ex-cat loss ratios rose by 1.3 percentage points year-on-year on a simple average basis at the companies under our coverage that have reported so far.
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The third quarter could still go down as the costliest in the (re)insurance industry's history, with almost all the companies to report so far dragged to a loss and a significant portion of the sector's excess capital wiped out.
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With the third quarter earnings season around the corner, the market is waiting to see how much of a toll the recent hurricanes had on results, and what it is likely to mean for full-year earnings
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A look-up table of all the Q3 loss announcements so far by company
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Swiss reinsurers posted an overall underwriting loss in 2016 as their collective non-life combined ratio increased by 10 percentage points year-on-year to 106 percent, data from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) shows
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Look-up tables of all the Q3 loss announcements so far by event
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After a large number of companies in our coverage universe disclosed losses from the recent hurricanes, The Insurance Insider looked at how the estimated impacts compared to a common measure of exposure and loss sensitivity - their disclosed probable maximum loss (PML) numbers
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London-listed (re)insurers have emerged as the most affected by the third quarter's catastrophe events.