February 2019/4

The Australian Royal Commission into financial services misconduct has led to withdrawal of local capacity

Leave clients to decide how they want to pay – it’s their money after all.

Brokers are pushing for a 5-10 percent rate increase on standard renewals.

A lawsuit by Affinity Gaming against security firm Trustwave is raising awareness of the risk, according to a report.

A recent private equity acquisition valued the broker at around 15x Ebitda.

Combined profits held level at $4.9bn across 2017/18 despite a five-point worsening in the mutuals’ aggregated combined ratio.

Adverse development and a withdrawal of capacity are expected to lead to increased pricing for loss-affected Latin American accounts.

Julian Enoizi, who was instrumental in bringing the £75mn Baltic Re terrorism cat bond to market, said using ILS for an exotic risk was “a long journey”.

A creeping sense of optimism stems from specialty lines