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I am certain that many in the marketplace will have seen the news yesterday that Lloyd’s is raising £300mn ($394.9mn) to fund the Blueprint One programme and been shocked by the size of the number.
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Just as the major UK political parties brawling to form the next government have decided voters are unmoved by the boring business of debt- and deficit-to-GDP ratios, Swiss Re CEO Christian Mumenthaler has concluded that capital concerns no longer hold that much sway.
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It’s the countdown to Christmas and for the many in the (re)insurance market, that means the focus is on the January renewals.
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In the first half of this decade, a new breed of eye-catchingly large facilities such as Aon and Berkshire Hathaway’s “sidecar” and Willis’ 360 were dominating headlines.
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The number of Lloyd’s underwriting entities is steadily falling.
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Headline numbers aside, the Lloyd’s market presentation paints a telling picture on market expectations, execution and reserving. -
If the #MeToo movement has done nothing else, it’s revealed that culture problems in the workplace know no bounds.
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A-grade students lose momentum, world-class soccer teams have bad runs and every ship must occasionally navigate through stormy weather.
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The reinsurance market is something of a conundrum as we begin the run-in to 1 January.
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At this week’s UN climate change meeting in Madrid delegate countries will discuss how to meet their Paris Agreement commitments. Next year they will be required to stump up specific plans at a crunch summit in Glasgow.
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Will InsurTech eat itself?
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Yesterday, MS Amlin announced that CEO Simon Beale and CUO James Illingworth would be stepping down from their roles as part of a reorganisation of the carrier.
