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

Lloyd’s plans to form an insurance-linked securities (ILS) trading platform could be realised once Brexit matters have been dealt with, according to its outgoing chairman John Nelson

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

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

AmTrust shares have fallen by more than half this year after a series of missteps and scandals that may now be affecting the US insurer's ability to retain its client base

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

The pace of global insurance rate decreases has slowed for the fifth quarter in a row, according to a study by Marsh

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

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