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This week the sharing economy arrived in the insurance sector, with the news that Berkshire Hathaway was among the reinsurance partners backing the imminent launch of peer-to-peer (P2P) carrier Lemonade.
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Reinsurance cycles may come and go but the seasonal swing from the period of Christmas indulgence to January detox resolution is one that will return every year without fail.
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Some might argue that sartorial traces of the 1970s or 80s cling to the reinsurance industry: the slipcases overflowing with papers, the Monte Carlo polo tops, the lunch-bedaubed shirt on a Friday afternoon.
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In the process of watching New Zealand's All Blacks powering through the Rugby World Cup over the past month, I've heard a few explanations of why they're the strongest team on the field these days.
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Ostensibly the reinsurance industry gathers in Monte Carlo every September to talk about rates for the upcoming January renewals.
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2015 might be the alternative reinsurance market's chance for a break from the spotlight during the industry's annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.
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Are ILS managers on a bit of a summer diet?
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The orthodox history of the convergence market revolution is that the catastrophe reinsurance establishment has been well and truly overturned by the growth of the broader ILS markets
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No doubt many of you have read recent articles in the financial press advertising the launch of a new book, Making a Market for Acts of God, which has been billed as an anthropological study on "reinsurance tribes at work
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It's no surprise that participants in the reinsurance industry fight for the power to narrate what is going on in the market.
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Flexibility is a bit of a double-edged adjective to apply to underwriters in a softening market.
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ILS fund managers have often critiqued the reinsurance industry's cost base, so it's not surprising to hear them borrowing comparisons from the aviation market to illustrate their value proposition.