September 2012/3

Lloyd's international growth to proceed with caution - Nelson; Rates remain biggest threat to Gulf; Beazley bond; Savage modernisation; Enstar expands; Harris off...

The Insurance Insider talks to Ross Howard, who from 1 October will take on the position of global leader in Towers Watson's insurance and reinsurance brokerage

Ratings agencies have praised reinsurers for tightening underwriting and risk management in reaction to last year's $100bn+ cat burden and have given the sector a stable outlook

Reinsurers will increasingly return to capital management as a lever to boost shareholder returns if broker predictions on downward pricing pressures prove correct in the run-up to the 1 January renewals.

The Insurance Insider's exclusive comparison of the voluminous reports and predictions on the reinsurance markets produced by the leading reinsurers and brokers

Robert Hiscox's distinguished career spanning 43 years in the London (re)insurance market was recognised in front of 600 of his peers at The Insurance Insider's inaugural Honours awards with the lifetime achiever award.

The Insurance Insider's inaugural Honours event saw 600 leading industry executives packed into the gothic splendor of London's Royal Courts of Justice. Naturally the Insider team were on hand to see the judges hand down their verdicts...

Sidecars are likely to continue to be a feature of the retro market in the future as many buyers now rely on their capacity, Aon Benfield Securities predicted in its annual insurance-linked securities (ILS) review.

Tokio Millennium Re has unveiled plans to launch a segregated cell company that will compete with the likes of Kane, Horseshoe and Aon as it moves into the transformer business.

During a debate hosted yesterday (10 September) in Monte Carlo by The Insurance Insider and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), top industry executives discussed the dilemma facing reinsurers in search of sustainable profitable growth in a fast-changing world

Chartis' chief reinsurance officer Samir Shah gives The Insurance Insider exclusive access to the underwriting giant's reinsurance buying strategy...

The sale of UK-listed run-off buyer and (re)insurance service provider Tawa is likely to encounter the same challenges the company faced in winning over investors

Robust performance at the reinsurance arms of the global brokers has helped drive results in the sector and provided a positive upside despite challenging economic conditions.

Three major Chinese carriers are understood to be offering quota share capacity to Lloyd's as the market looks to secure its capital ahead of the November coming-into-line date, The Insurance Insider can reveal

A combination of low catastrophe losses and an improving pricing environment in many business lines has helped the (re)insurance sector deliver a strong performance in the equity markets so far in 2012.

Novae Re is sending an "unambiguous signal" that the business is in "rude health" despite the 20-strong walk-out by its senior executives and underwriters this summer

2011 cats provoke losses but also fresh cat appetite, increased rates and reinstatement premiums

The surfeit of capital over-spilling from the reinsurance industry's coffers is partly illusory and is creating a false sense of balance sheet strength, a number of reinsurers and brokers have said

Willis Group is still expected to make a decision about the succession to its larger-than-life chairman and CEO Joe Plumeri this autumn, according to a number of sources close to the firm

The "conventional wisdom" that the best growth opportunities for the reinsurance market lie in emerging economies is flawed, according to Transatlantic Re CEO Mike Sapnar.

Willis Re CEO John Cavanagh has argued that if Lloyd's is to distinguish itself it must be an "entrepreneurial hotbed", with more dedicated underwriting platforms and a greater number of small start-ups from dynamic young underwriters.

It was a quieter Monte Carlo than usual, in part because of the fireworks at The Insurance Insider's 2011 MC Roundtable. But this just demonstrates how robust the industry's balance sheets are

Reinsurers were publicly talking a good game about rate prospects while brokers were being unnaturally circumspect. But in private discussions it appears likely that rate increases for short-tail lines in 2013 will be as rare as a friendly Monaco taxi driver...