February 2018/2

M&A activity among (re)insurance companies is likely to increase throughout 2018 as the release of trapped capital injects more money into the sector, according to JLT Re CEO Mike Reynolds.

Are we in insurance going against the gods?

US property claims from third quarter catastrophes and the sudden change in the UK's personal injury discount rate helped to nudge up reinsurance rates at the 1 January renewals.

A three-week period featuring the sale of Validus to AIG, a major profits warning from Aspen and reports that XL is in takeover talks with Allianz has placed the future of the Bermuda market front and centre.

P&C (re)insurance stocks moved in line with wider market indices during the equity sell-off over the past fortnight, despite the fact non-life names are often viewed as safe-haven investments that protect against market volatility.

Last week, AIG reported Q4 operating earnings per share of $0.57, versus Wall Street's consensus estimate of $0.75.

Since it emerged out of the liability crisis of the mid-1980s, Bermuda has faced many challenges - perceived or real - to its hegemony as the world's pre-eminent offshore (re)insurance market.

Axis Capital has $1.9bn of third-party capital support for 2018, of which around 55 percent is dedicated to property cat risk.

The London insurance sector is highly competitive, but is exhibiting some of the flaws you would expect to find in a monopolistic market, according to Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) president Matthew Moore.

The global (re)insurance market must embrace modernisation or risk being left behind by disruptors, according to Peak Re CEO Franz-Josef Hahn.

Reinsurance rate rises ended up being pretty limp by the time 1 January came around.

Specialty insurer StarStone has agreed a partnership with Securis that will help the insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager expand its US property insurance portfolio, sister publication Trading Risk revealed.