February 2018/1

On a wall of the Insider offices is a framed piece of original artwork that was published on the front cover of the fourth issue of the then London Insurance Insider.

RenaissanceRe's third-party capital platforms have engaged in substantial fundraising following hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, the carrier revealed in its Q4 results.

Total return reinsurers have been caught off guard as changes in US tax law threaten to redefine offshore affiliates as investment managers and not reinsurers.

Markel Catco has placed 41.5 percent of net assets in its London-listed Reinsurance Opportunities Fund into side pockets connected to the 2017 losses, the retro manager said in an update on its 2018 portfolio.

Pockets of hardening have emerged in the commercial property sector for US primary habitational and coastal hotel risks in the wake of 2017 catastrophes and mounting attritional losses.

Inga Beale's statement yesterday that Lloyd's was willing to mandate the use of Placing Platform Limited (PPL) was not quite the go-it-alone pronouncement it seemed, with the move agreed by the London market's modernisation group early last week.

Several Latin American countries are set to benefit from $1.36bn of combined earthquake reinsurance from a new cat bond, sister publication Trading Risk reported.