Archive

• Third-party capital appetite for reinsurance may be inflated

  27 August 2013

  New money not rushing in blindly, says A M Best

• Swiss Re claims "minimal impact" from July renewals

  08 August 2013

  But catastrophes take toll on P&C business

• RMS says new hurricane model lowers view of risk

  31 July 2013

  North Atlantic hurricane model tested with sample of clients

• XL sets up ILS fund with Stone Point

  26 July 2013

  Aims to attract third-party investors to $135m fund

• New York quizzes reinsurers on compliance with Iran sanctions

  25 July 2013

  Firms face fines and bans for breaching new rules

• European flood losses surpass $1.6bn

  16 July 2013

  Partner Re is latest to report impact

• New capital muscles into the reinsurance business

  12 July 2013

  Hedge funds, pension funds and wealth managers are among the newer investors reshaping the way that reinsurance operates and prices risk. These non-traditional investors like the returns available and the lack of correlation with other capital markets. But do they fully appreciate the risks? Sarfraz Thind reports

• US reinsurance rates remain under pressure at 1 July renewals

  09 July 2013

  Pricing to trend downwards for the rest of the year, say brokers

• UK's Flood Re capitalised for 1 in 200-year event

  27 June 2013

  Agreement struck between government and industry to provide flood cover for at-risk property

• US has more reservations about Solvency II than a year ago

  21 June 2013

  The federal threat to the US system of state-based insurance supervision is waning, according to Jim Donelon and Ben Nelson, the president and CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, but international pressure for reform is an ever-present danger. In a Q&A with InsuranceERM, the new officials also discuss progress on reinsurance collateral, the ORSA and principles-based reserving