Baden-Baden 2023
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With new leadership at some of the largest continentals, there will be close attention to how their tactics in changing lines of business will evolve.
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The Bermudian’s global property CUO and European chief says it is ready to expand if conditions remain favourable.
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E+S Rück said that natural disasters and persistently high inflation have again "taken a toll" on the German insurance industry.
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Speakers at the Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden symposium said the industry must improve its prospects as an investment opportunity.
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Reinsurers are taking aim at pockets of European risk that escaped retention and rate rises last year.
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Italy’s largest insurer has booked EUR840mn in cat losses for the nine months to 30 September.
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Executives said geopolitical uncertainty, economic stagnation, cyber, cat events and inflation will drive demand on the Continent.
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The reinsurer said hardening of property reinsurance conditions must continue.
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Gulf insurers have borne the brunt of reinsurance rate corrections in the past couple of years, but a different, albeit similar market segment is emerging as a focus for concern ahead of this year’s 1 January renewal.
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Swiss Re has underperformed its reinsurance peers over the past 12 months, an analyst said.
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Wildfires in British Columbia were the largest of 11 catastrophe losses for the insurer.
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Carriers achieved sweeping changes in pricing, terms and coverage in a hectic renewal at 1 January 2023, in a reset that sources hope isn’t reversed.