Swiss Re
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Swiss Re is among reinsurers to have the right to limit coverage if conflict widened.
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Insurance Insider revealed this deal in January.
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The new CEO needs to fix the underwriting, but should also ask the bigger questions.
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We take a look at the outgoing CEO’s performance as he prepares to handover to CorSo CEO Andreas Berger.
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Andreas Berger will step down as CEO of Swiss Re CorSo on 1 July.
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Severe convective storms were the biggest driver of last year’s losses.
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Hard-won profitability has given carriers room to salt away reserves.
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The recruit will run E+S Rück and part of European reinsurance.
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The carrier is also nominating Geraldine Matchett to its board.
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Opportunities for profitable growth remain in 2024, the agency said.
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The US tallies $97bn in economic losses from major perils each year.
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Pravina Ladva, Swiss Re's group CDTO, sets out experiments the carrier is conducting with generative AI.
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The carrier added casualty reserves of more than $500mn during Q4.
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The group’s net profit leapt six-fold to $3.2bn for the year.
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The reinsurer took a harder line than peers on casualty treaty at the latest renewal.
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Swiss Re will transfer its Genoa-based hull business to Dual Europe and provide the MGA with underwriting capacity.
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The segment has bounced back from its mid-2022 nadir, but its current zenith is not that much to shout home about.
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Effective immediately, Wolfe will help drive growth strategies across the region. He will also lead Guy Carpenter’s US facultative business alongside Frank Guerriero, chairman of Guy Carpenter Facultative.
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Prior to his resignation, Stubbs held the role of deputy class underwriter at Chaucer Group.
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The downgrade was driven by a change in the Swiss Insurance Supervision Act, which came into effect 1 January and is unrelated to the rating fundamentals of Swiss Re, according to the agency.
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Separately, sources said Swiss Re Miami-based head of auto overseeing the motor portfolio for the LatAm region Carlos Ricci has also left the reinsurer.
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George Quinn has worked at Zurich for a decade and will oversee the completion of Zurich’s 2023 annual results.
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Global cat-bond capacity has grown by about 4% annually over the last six years, according to a report by the Swiss Re Institute.
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Losses from severe thunderstorms have increased by 7% annually in the last 30 years, according to the Swiss Re Institute.
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