October 2015/1
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QBE appoints Grote; US commercial rates down 1%; Berkley Re UK starts fac unit; Arch Re US hires CUO; Suncorp hires Herman; Riordan follows Kerner out of Zurich; Markel gains Hope; Compre reshuffle
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Only six days into the fourth quarter of the year, a number of weather events have occurred that could threaten insurers with below-threshold cat losses.
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The fictional adventures of an industry titan
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Relatively unnoticed, there has been a quiet revolution in insurers' attitudes to fixed income investments over the past few years.
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The trial in a long-trailed $85mn fraud case over the loss of the Brillante Virtuoso in 2011 - which has been linked to the murder of a British loss adjuster - has been postponed
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The first auction for 2015 capacity on Names-backed syndicates at Lloyd's has seen the biggest price jump in five years, with average prices climbing almost 10p on the previous year to 36.7p per £1 of capacity.
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The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) will work with Lloyd's to streamline some of the administration around Solvency II, the market's chairman revealed at a gala dinner late last month
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The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has concluded its initial development of the higher loss absorbency (HLA) requirement for global systemically important insurers (G-SIIs)
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The imperative to sustain top-line growth is driving publicly traded Florida homeowners' insurers to seek acquisitions outside of the state, with two transactions announced last week.
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Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
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P&C (re)insurance stocks comfortably beat the performances of both the FTSE 100 and Stoxx Euro 600, with the Lloyd's carriers leading the way
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The average share price for the Insider 30 universe of P&C (re)insurers climbed 4.85 percent in the third quarter, significantly outperforming the S&P 500, the FTSE 100 and the Stoxx Euro 600 indices.
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Losses to the crisis-hit upstream energy market may have reached $2.7bn in the year to date as medium-sized claims continue to pummel the sector, according to figures from JLT and separate numbers from market sources.
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Insurance investment chiefs have responded positively to the proposed changes to securitisation regulations announced last week, and hinted at the possibility of increasing their exposures as a result
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EU commissioner Jonathan Hill launched the European Commission's Capital Markets Union action plan late last month, unveiling five initiatives to diversify funding for European businesses
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Willis Re's Raju Bohra highlighted a number of unintended consequences that could impact the P&C sector as a result of the revisions to AM Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR) model.
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As well as addressing cat risk, the revised AM Best Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR) points to a new approach to reinsurance recoverables for longer-tail business.
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Proposed changes to AM Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR) could have far-reaching consequences for insurers on both the asset and liability sides of the balance sheet, driving fresh demand for reinsurance.
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Newly acquired fund manager Catco is preparing to expand its listed retro fund, the Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund, after setting a $750mn upper limit for new potential share issuances over the coming year.
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US mutual fund manager Stone Ridge Asset Management added to its portfolio of reinsurer sidecars in the mid-year renewals, investing a further a $100mn in Swiss Re's Sector Re vehicle, sister publication Trading Risk reported late last month.
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JLT's near-monopoly on local council business in Australia has come under further scrutiny following a report by the auditor general of South Australia.
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French mutual insurer Covea has secured EUR1.6bn ($1.8bn) of catastrophe reinsurance at a rate reduction of more than 15 percent, in an ill omen for the 1 January renewals, The Insurance Insider understands.
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Allianz will put 100 percent of the major aggregate cover purchased by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) last year through its intra-group reinsurance vehicle at 1 January, The Insurance Insider understands.
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Players in the UK solicitors' professional indemnity (PI) market suffered another tough round of renewals at 1 October, with a handful of markets accepting 25 percent rate reductions in a bid to grow market share.
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