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Australia's health insurers hit 26-year peak in customer numbers in 2023

But S&P Global Ratings warns about return of higher cost inflation

IFRS 17 is "two steps forward, one step back" for insurance accounting

Updated standard removes asset-liability mismatch, but impedes comparability, says S&P

Australian non-life reinsurance costs rise 44% in seven years, S&P Global finds

Premium growth outstripped reinsurance hikes over period

EU's Solvency II reforms could free up to €80bn of capital, S&P estimates

Insurance sector's solvency ratios to benefit by up to 25 percentage points in aggregate

S&P: Iran-Israel conflict unlikely to erupt into full-scale Middle East war

The rating agency says Emea insurers are not currently materially affected by the conflict, but risks remain

Breakeven is best Asia's reinsurers can hope for underwriting in 2024, predicts S&P Global

Rating agency predicts more regular reviews of underwriting assumptions in future

S&P Global predicts less than $1bn of insured losses from Japan quake

Apra urges Australia's property insurers to consider alternative ways to reinsure

Country's reinsurers made A$1.25 for every dollar of claims paid over decade, says S&P Global Ratings

Climate change won't deter reinsurers' interest in China, says S&P Global

Non-life ceding ratio has risen from 8.5% to 10% since 2019

Relocation, relocation, relocation: Australia debates the last resort for property insurability crisis

The property agent's catchcry of "location, location, location" is being reinvented as homeowners face up to the growing threats from natural catastrophes and climate change. David Walker reports