Reinsurance

The global catastrophe market has proved itself a powerful force in reinsurance.Thomas Johansmeyer reports on its performance

Thomas Johansmeyer considers how reinsurers should react to the growing number of unexpected events during the past few years

The UK government is to increase the Ogden discount rate to counteract the 2017 reduction, which caused motor insurance and reinsurance premiums to rise significantly. Mohammad Khan, Sundip Mistry and Andrew Corner explore how uncertainty around this change affects insurers

Dr Quintin Rayer looks at how putting portfolios through stress testing can ensure that trustees are actively working to protect their assets from extreme market events

Insurers perennially cite a pandemic as one of the major risks they face, but are the industry's modelling approaches keeping pace with the wider body of available knowledge? Matthew Edwards and Richard Marshall investigate

The soft cycle in reinsurance has continued longer than many reinsurers expected in the past few years, according to a report published by Standard and Poor’s (S&P).

The Treasury Select Committee has launched an inquiry into Solvency II, a harmonised EU-wide insurance regulatory scheme, following the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Insured losses caused by an earthquake in Italy last month will be low, owing to very limited insurance penetration, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.

The number of periodic payment orders (PPOs) granted by UK courts in 2015 remains low, according to Aon Benfield.

Market softening in reinsurance is continuing to slow down during the June/July renewal season due to a lack of catastrophe losses, with price reductions also slowing, according to Willis Re.