Analysis

Market intelligence on the QT

Business class updates for the global market

IQ's round-up of regional market developments

Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers

The investment results of The Insurance Insider's composites broadly improved in 2016, as a combination of a stronger performance by risk assets, rising interest rates and a lengthening of duration helped carriers better their 2015 performance.

All of The Insurance Insider's composites endured a challenging end to the year, with returns down for every group and performance meaningfully weaker for two composites.

All the composites in our analysis recorded higher combined ratios in the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2015.

The P&C (re)insurance industry delivered another set of discouraging results for the final three months of 2016, as carriers reported contracting underwriting margins, depressed returns and competitive pricing.

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The global reinsurers reported narrowing underwriting margins at their P&C reinsurance operations in the final quarter of 2016, as loss ratios were pushed up by above-median catastrophe losses across the board.

Global reinsurers posted slower gross written premium (GWP) growth in their P&C reinsurance divisions in the fourth quarter, as attractive new business became increasingly scarce in the soft market cycle.

AmTrust has again found itself in the crosshairs of the plaintiff bar after an accounting error forced it to postpone the release of its full results filing for 2016 and restate its results for the past three years