Reinsurance Execs See Market Adjusting to New Realities January 20, 2015 By Charles E. Boyle Aon Benfield’s Reinsurance Market Analysis describes the participants as having “reached the end of a 15 year journey, featuring chronological...
Catastrophe Bond Issuance Reaches Record Levels: Aon Benfield Report January 16, 2015 Property catastrophe bond issuance for the fourth quarter 2014 stood at USD$2.1 billion across six separate transactions, contributing to a...
A.M. Best: Reinsurers Need Underwriting Discipline in Competitive Market January 14, 2015 Increasing competition and lower underwriting margins in the reinsurance market highlights the importance of disciplined underwriting, according to an A.M....
Competitive Pressures Mount for Reinsurers September 19, 2014 By Jonathan Gould Reinsurers are being squeezed by price competition and subdued demand from insurers for their products, and traditional mergers may not...
Reinsurance Alternative Capital Now 20% of Cat Market: Aon Benfield ILS Report September 11, 2014 Alternative capital has captured approximately a 20 percent market share of property catastrophe reinsurance volume. That news came our of...
‘Worst Market in Memory’ to Keep Pressure on Reinsurance Rates September 3, 2014 By Carolyn Bandel and Oliver Suess The worst reinsurance market in memory looks set to carry into 2015, industry executives said. An absence of costly disasters...
Cat Bonds Totaling $4.5 Billion Issued in Q2 2014: Aon Benfield ILS Study July 9, 2014 By Charles E. Boyle Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield in its latest report...
Willis Sees Catastrophe Bonds Setting Record This Year After Busy Q2 July 7, 2014 The largest ever volume of non-life catastrophe bonds was issued during the second quarter of 2014 (Q2), according to a...
Cat Bond Buyers Listening to Storm Forecasters, Not Buffett June 16, 2014 By Caroline Chen Bond buyers are betting more than ever on the mercy of Mother Nature as they seek to boost yields being...
Global Reinsurer Stocks Face Challenges in 2014: Best Special Report June 11, 2014 A new report from A.M. Best determined that “stocks for publicly traded reinsurance companies, including the four top European players,...