Opinion

The mood in London is becoming increasingly bullish on the upwards pricing momentum in insurance lines.

MMC’s performance is under heightened scrutiny as the company completes its first quarter since the £4.9bn ($6.0bn) acquisition of JLT.

The ILS market is passing through a period of real change as the landscape is reshaped following a highly challenging 18 months.

Hiscox CEO Bronek Masojada has highlighted the importance of taking one for the team if John Neal’s Future at Lloyd’s six-point action plan is to succeed.

Last week, Markel said it was placing its retro fund manager Markel Catco into run-off, as part of a restructure that will see a fresh retro play brought to market for 1 January 2020.

There’s a really simple reason us Brits are famous for talking about the weather so much.

I’ve been writing about (re)insurance for almost a decade now, initially for another London-based industry title, my memories of which are increasingly patchy.

The Beazley results released yesterday represent the broader market picture in microcosm, and most of the key themes of earnings season were legible there.

Our director of research Gavin Davis and his team have been on tremendous form of late.

Eiopa chairman Gabriel Bernardino last week reprised the unresolved theme of a state backstop for cyber (re)insurers.

It’s no surprise that the topic of bonuses and remuneration gets people talking. Recently my colleague Gavin Davis hit a nerve among our readers over an editorial he wrote essentially arguing that the reinsurance industry did not make anywhere near enough use of properly designed performance-based remuneration structures. Underwriting executives had insufficient skin in the game, he argued.

Earlier this week, The Insurance Insider reported that reinsurance market sentiment has “hit its highest level in years, with mounting confidence that gathering pricing momentum can be sustained beyond 2019”.