May 2018/5

None of the run-off deals in Q1 involved the transfer of asbestos, pollution and other health hazard liabilities.

Sources believe they are not yet in a hard market for D&F business.

ISS opposes take-private deal and Glass Lewis urges shareholders to vote yes.

The absence of major cat losses and low attritional losses helped European P&C reinsurers generate healthy margins in Q1.

The big three brokers beat Wall Street estimates for the period, while results at AJ Gallagher and Brown & Brown were in line with consensus expectations.

Hiscox led the cohort in terms of gross written premium growth.