Top International ¾ÅÉ« Stories of 2023 December 29, 2023 By L.S. Howard Yes, another year has flown by, and it’s once again time for the top international ¾ÅÉ« stories of 2023....
‘Hard But More Manageable’ Jan. 1 Renewals; Little Relief on Retentions September 22, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane The hard reinsurance market in property-catastrophe reinsurance isn’t coming to an end at Jan. 1, 2024, but reinsurers are likely...
Appetite for Cat Exposures Returns; Reinsurers Stay Disciplined in Mid-Year Renewals July 6, 2023 By L.S. Howard Capacity was more readily available during the mid-year renewals, which brokers described as “orderly,” in comparison to the turbulent January...
Reinsurers Maintain Their ‘Heightened Risk Aversion’ During June 1 Renewals: Report June 2, 2023 Reinsurance rates continued to harden during the June 1 renewals, with risk-adjusted property-catastrophe pricing up 33% on average, according to...
Client, Reinsurer Expectations Were Better Aligned at April Renewals: Swiss Re May 9, 2023 While the January reinsurance renewals proved to be the toughest and most gruelling for decades, the April 1 renewals, driven...
S&P Predicts Reinsurers Will Continue Pricing Momentum During 2023 January 30, 2023 A hard market in short-tail lines – such as property and property catastrophe – across global geographies is likely to...
January Reinsurance Renewals Were Most Challenging in 2 Decades: MMC’s Doyle January 27, 2023 By L.S. Howard The most challenging January reinsurance renewals in nearly two decades saw global property catastrophe rate increases of 25% to 60%...
No Class of 2023: Why Capital Is Sitting on the Reinsurance Sidelines January 25, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane Until investors can be convinced that property-catastrophe reinsurance pricing has caught up with recurring event losses, they’ll continue to sit...
Jan. 1 Renewals: ‘They Got Done’; Carrier Overreliance on Reinsurers Corrected January 24, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane When an AM Best analyst said, “Apparently, things didn’t go that bad” to describe 1/1 reinsurance renewals, he wasn’t actually...
It’s Not Over: Tough Times to Persist for Reinsurance January 20, 2023 Repeating words like “frustrated” and “disappointed,” which also punctuated earlier reinsurance broker reports on the Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals to...