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Has there ever been a more interesting time in (re)insurance for mergers, acquisitions and new capital formations?

Tech innovators would be forgiven for looking at our industry and wondering how so little about the way it operates has changed in the past two decades.

It’s always fascinating to bring together global reinsurance executives for a 90 minute debate, but doing it virtually in September, half way through the hurricane season, adds extra spice.

When we set out our initial plans for (Re)Connect, it was something of a daunting task.

The combination of Covid-19, an active hurricane system, hungry investment capital and a sense of market urgency is causing 1.1 to shape up as one of the most interesting renewals for decades.

Climate change is increasing the severity of natural catastrophes and insurers can help address the challenge.

With Lloyd’s having ventured down a rabbit hole of reinvention, does Bermuda stand to benefit?

With the (re)insurance industry at a “flex point”, it needs to improve returns beyond merely meeting the cost of capital .

London must find a technological solution that will unite the market and bring it up to date.

Dislocation and disruption characterise the rapidly changing US (re)insurance market.

Is the much-vaunted collaborative approach by the (re)insurance and tech industries working out as planned?

As climate change threatens ever-wilder weather patterns and higher loss events and retro prices soar, is the reinsurance sector facing extinction?

A special issue covering the 16th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference.

The disconnection between MGA and carrier valuations continues.

The last of three special issues covering the APCIA 2019 annual conference.

The second of three special issues covering the APCIA 2019 annual conference.

The second of two special issues covering the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting.

The first of two special issues covering the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting.

The first of three special issues covering the APCIA 2019 annual conference.

Welcome to our post-event supplement for the The Insurance Insider Honours 2019, which took place on 5 September at Old Billingsgate in London.

The last of four daily issues covering the Rendez-Vous de Septembre.

The third of four daily issues covering the Rendez-Vous de Septembre.

The second of four daily issues covering the Rendez-Vous de Septembre.

The first of four daily issues covering the Rendez-Vous de Septembre.

The (re)insurance industry has some catching up to do with the wider pace of technological change in the financial services sector.

Given the (re)insurance sector’s notorious resistance to change, harnessing technology to aid underwriting excellence has been a slow process.

Discipline will be key as the legacy market enters a period of rapid change.

The insurance sector needs to get to grips with data capture, storage and utilisation before it can begin to leverage AI and automation.

Our in-depth research study explores the current state of, potential growth opportunities for and challenges facing London’s burgeoning delegated authority marketplace.

Who would want to run an MGA these days? In fact, the answer is quite a lot of people, actually.

Sometimes chairing an industry panel is easy – for this session I only had to ask a couple of questions, seek a little focus and clarification, issue a few challenges and the panellists did the rest.

This publication, in association with AdvantageGo, examines the state of global underwriting.

As live carriers shake off last night’s excesses and vow to turn over a new leaf, the run-off market can be there to provide a reassuring pat on the back and a sympathetic ear.

Artificial intelligence may drive many of the (re)insurance industry’s functions in years to come, but hiring top talent alongside it will be key to the sector’s future success.

Technology will prove a useful tool for the (re)insurance industry, but its ability to disintermediate the market is exaggerated.

In many ways, The Insurance Insider Roundtable has become the definitive event of the Monte Carlo gathering.

A special issue covering the 2018 Singapore International Reinsurance Conference.

The last of our special issues covering the PCI 2018 annual conference.

The second of three special issues covering the PCI 2018 annual conference.

The first of three special issues covering the PCI 2018 annual conference.

We are in the middle of one of our industry’s periodically frenetic bouts of deal activity.

There seems to be consensus among reinsurers and their broker partners that the industry must be leaner if it is to survive. Technology can certainly play a major part in that ambition.

Cyber market protagonists discuss the existential questions around the extent to which underwriters should rely on data and technology to price risk.

The second of our special issues covering the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting.

The first of two special issues covering the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting.

The last of four daily issues covering the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

The third of four daily issues covering the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

The second of four daily issues covering the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

The first of four daily issues covering the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

How can Bermuda meet the challenge of a changing reinsurance market?

Positivity reigns in legacy circles as deals are getting bigger, and are occurring more frequently.

The MENA Insurance Pulse is an annual market survey among senior executives of the region’s insurers, reinsurers and brokers.

This publication's latest legacy survey finds the sector is having something of a “moment”.

The reinsurance migration calendar doesn't usually bring me to Bermuda in December.

Bermuda is blessed with some of the best restaurants I've ever had the pleasure to attend, and seafood features heavily.

Welcome to the first of our daily editions from the 2017 Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium.

Welcome to the second of our daily editions from the 2017 Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium.

Welcome to the last of our daily newsletters from this year's PCI conference, which took place on 15-17 October in Chicago.

Welcome to the second of our daily newsletters from this year's PCI conference, which took place on 15-17 October in Chicago.

Welcome to the first of our daily newsletters from this year's PCI conference, which took place on 15-17 October in Chicago.

Welcome to our post-event supplement for the sixth Insurance Insider Honours.

In many ways this publication's Monte Carlo Roundtable has become the definitive event of the gathering.

This is my 13th straight Rendez-Vous. I have become an RVS teenager

Psychologists have proven that in a negotiation it is always a good tactic to anchor your opponent's expectations with your first bid

Over the weekend, a huge bloc of Rendez-Vous-ers found that what seems very simple on paper can be fiendishly difficult in practice

Awards acceptance speeches are usually quite predictable. But when a Cat-5 hurricane is hurtling towards Florida, predictability is the first casualty...

Florida is truly the reinsurance market's risk hothouse. Its coastline produces the bulk of the ILS market's exposure and Florida risks still squeeze out more profit for reinsurers than many other lines of business

Back at the end of each of the last few soft markets London-based MGAs have managed to make quite a name for themselves

At the moment, it feels like few things in life are a safe bet.

Bermuda RT 2016 2017 It's a bit of a cliché to say we're living in interesting times, but clichés become clichés because there's more than an element of truth to them

As Hurricane Matthew reached peak intensity and set its sights firmly on Florida in early October there was talk of "the big one": a storm of such magnitude that it could alter the inexorable softening course of the US (re)insurance market

The passing of 20 years of The Insurance Insider is a moment to celebrate the achievements of a publication that is now firmly embedded in the global P&C (re)insurance sector.

The Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings survey 2016 is the most comprehensive independent survey of London cyber brokers and underwriters ever conducted

In the summer of the European football championships, it's difficult to avoid a sporting theme for this opening letter

Welcome to our post-event supplement for the fifth Insurance Insider Honours, which took place on the 8 September 2016

The third of our special issues from this year's PCI conference

Even the most doting parent would admit that they can find their children a trial at times

The second of our special issues from this year's PCI conference.

It's going to be a long winter in the global insurance village

The first of our special issues from this year's PCI conference.

Victoria Carter, vice chairman of international operations at Guy Carpenter, discusses the dangers and opportunities that disruption may bring to the (re)insurance industry

Nick Frankland, CEO, EMEA, Guy Carpenter, on the challenge of closing the gap between insured and total economic losses

I've been involved in a fair few (re)insurance-related debates over the years, and I've no hesitation in saying that this was one of the liveliest, with some strident views and intelligent commentary on where the fac market is headed

Another Rendez-Vous has been and gone and the autumn is upon us once more, tingeing us all with melancholy

If M&A were a sport it would be more like baseball than basketball

Monte Carlo - the place where the poor come to look at the rich and the rich come to feel inadequate

This is a great industry. I love it. I always have done and I always will do

The power of a good metaphor should never be underestimated

Who would have thought it? It turns out the worlds of theatre and reinsurance have many similarities

It's not all doom and gloom. The mid-year renewals weren't that bad after all

The journey through conflicts of interest in the broking sector.

Welcome to the 2015 Major & Complex Loss Review where we look at just a few of the most interesting and challenging losses from the last 12 months - giving you a bird's eye view of the challenges faced by the policyholder and the solutions developed for them. The losses vary enormously, by country or by cause - but the key elements of the solution remain constant: the right person, in the right place at the right time.

It's not often that the glitz of the film industry crosses with the glamour of the legacy market

It's a great privilege to have a ringside seat when something exciting is happening in the industry.

It's a great privilege to have a ringside seat when something exciting is happening in the industry.

I think we've got to learn to be a little more consistent in our approach to this great industry of ours

I love the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous! In many ways The Insurance Insider Roundtable has become the definitive event of the gathering.

Welcome to our post-event supplement for the fourth Insurance Insider Honours, which took place on the 10 September 2015.

After a brief sojourn away from the hallowed halls of fac it was lovely to be surrounded by so many familiar faces at this year's Inside FAC Monte Carlo Roundtable.

I love the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous! In many ways The Insurance Insider Roundtable has become the definitive event of the gathering.

The last of our special issues from this year's PCI conference.

The second of our special issues from this year's PCI conference.

The first of our special issues from this year's PCI conference.

The global (re)insurance industry must have been very bad in a previous life, for the amount of other people's suffering we have had to endure since the global financial crisis began has been enormous