Net returns narrowed materially during the second quarter as thinning underwriting margins, low investment returns and mark-to-market losses crunched the bottom line
Listed (re)insurers delivered varied underwriting results for the second quarter as some carriers were bludgeoned by above-average large risk and attritional claims while others benefited from another light cat quarter
Share prices for the remaining four London-listed (re)insurers rose this morning (8 September) as the buzz surrounding the announcement of Mitsui Sumitomo's $5.34bn acquisition of Amlin resonated through the market
Fitch expects that reinsurance pricing will continue to fall in 2016 as the ratings agency is unconvinced that a slowdown in rate reductions has signalled the market reaching the floor
Reinsurers have held onto their US windstorm exposure in 2015 despite reducing their overall exposure to catastrophe risk, Standard & Poor's (S&P) has said
