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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.

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

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.

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.

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

InsurTech funding volumes leapt by 36 percent to $2.3bn in 2017, according to data from Willis Towers Watson.

Carriers and brokers have published their best estimates for natural catastrophe losses across the 2017 calendar year, with figures ranging from Swiss Re's $131bn to JLT Re's $140bn.

Reinstatement premiums and increased demand for back-up covers in the aftermath of last year's North Atlantic hurricanes boosted reinsurance brokers' organic revenues in the fourth quarter.

Early reporters within The Insurance Insider's coverage universe have so far mostly beaten consensus estimates for the fourth quarter, with share prices rising in reaction to the wins.