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The reinsurance and ILS markets have spent two years talking about losses, but perhaps more focus on the good years would help reduce some of the noise in the bad years.
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Do we need new labels for the different types of ILS managers that exist?
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As ILS reinsurers recover from the 2017-2018 loss years, the consensus view now is that the market will see a “flight to quality” by investors, bolstering the position of some platforms while eroding the asset base of poorer performers.
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Reinsurers are taking modest rate increases largely by “riding on the backs of primary writers”, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg said recently.
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On sweltering weeks like this, you can see why climate change has become a talking point that every ILS manager has to cover in their pitch for new investor mandates.
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If 2018 is to be a horrible but ultimately beneficial tonic for the overall market, then it is crucial that all players now decide to go above and beyond recommended standards on transparency.
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Retro brokers are itching to get back to the driver’s wheel – but they may have to wait a bit longerThe retro market has been hard hit in the past couple of years by trapped capital and losses.
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In a pleasantly warm Zurich this week, I was discussing one of the city’s traditions – burning the giant figure of a snowman to herald the end of winter and coming spring.
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There has been a fair bit of congratulatory talk about the “discipline” of the (re)insurance market in the past month or so.
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As the FCA updates the market on its view of the Woodford funds saga, some of the material it is publishing has echoes that may resonate within the ILS market.
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Timing is everything and, for the reinsurance market, this is especially true when it comes to losses.
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A move towards more bilateral trades is counter to what you’d expect from a commoditised market.