June 2017/1

Capital repatriation slowed down in Q1 compared to the same period of last year for most P&C (re)insurers in our coverage universe, with share repurchases proving unattractive as operating earnings subsided

The PRA is investigating broker facilities in one of two interconnected reviews launched amid pleas for help from carriers in tackling mounting acquisition costs, The Insurance Insider has learned

The Benelux region has pulled further ahead of rival jurisdictions among UK carriers seeking locations for post-Brexit subsidiaries, with Luxembourg extending its overall lead

When it was announced, there was a sense in the marketplace that the creation of the Aon Client Treaty (ACT) was a defining event

Florida reinsurance rates are now hovering just 10 percent above the previous cyclical lows noted in 1999-2000, after falling by 5.1 percent at this year's June renewal, according to JLT Re

A number of the bigger residual insurers were among cedants that prospered as competition for US property catastrophe reinsurance business intensified in the mid-year renewals

Aon Client Treaty, the big-three broker’s flagship London market facility, wrote only around a third of the premiums forecast in its first full year of operation, The Insurance Insider can reveal

Underwriters are surveying the damage of a 1 June property cat renewal that was significantly more competitive than initially expected, with buyers securing better terms than they might have hoped for

In contrast with their Bermudian counterparts, the vast majority of US specialty (re)insurers opted out of repatriating capital to shareholders through buybacks

Yesterday my usual route to work took me past a squadron of white TV satellite uplink vans lining the neighbouring river crossing to London Bridge, pressing as close to the police cordon as they dared

Tokio Millennium Re is seeking $250mn of reinsurance cover from its Spectrum Re 2017-1 cat bond, according to sister publication Trading Risk

Allstate allowed a $175mn gap fill layer to lapse when it renewed its $4.42bn nationwide excess catastrophe reinsurance programme ahead of the start of the 2017 hurricane season