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In many sports, contestants feed off public displays of confidence
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Energy sector rate increases are likely to remain in the single digits, if that, for risks unaffected by 2017's near-record catastrophes, JLT said yesterday, adding its voice to a rising chorus of similar sentiments from analysts and market sources.
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There are six complexly interlinked themes that can be used to tell the reinsurance sector's stories as we look back to 2017 and into 2018.
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Rates on loss-hit catastrophe retro accounts surged as much as 30 percent at 1 January, according to Willis Re.
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Higher-attaching UK motor liability programmes experienced rate rises of as much as 100 percent at 1 January, as uncertainty about Ogden discount rate reforms made for a challenging renewal, according to Willis Re.
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AIG bought a new $2bn aggregate catastrophe cover and a new international catastrophe treaty at 1 January as it followed through on a commitment to lay off more risk to the reinsurance market, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
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We gave our early take on the renewals on Friday
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Reinsurers expecting to achieve significant rate increases in the 1.1 renewals have been disappointed, according to Willis Re.
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The overall pre-Christmas theme of disappointment for reinsurers has continued, with most business now firm ordered with only modest rate increases for clients without losses.
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Insured losses are likely to more than double year-on-year in 2017 to $136bn, according to Swiss Re's latest Sigma report, making this year one of the costliest ever for catastrophes
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Reinsurers look unlikely to achieve a meaningful correction in US property catastrophe reinsurance pricing at 1 January, but will be able to point to a better than expected casualty renewal.
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Reinsurance pricing reflects market fundamentals. And that is the story of this renewal to date.
