All risk transfer articles – Page 3
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AnalysisDescartes in bid to disrupt corporate insurance
The parametric insurtech has ambitious plans to expand climate risk solutions after successful capital raise
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AnalysisUK consortium to tackle systemic risk
Backed by Pool Re, it will support the creation of private-public solutions and develop new risk transfer products
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AnalysisFerma: Captives must be deemed “low risk” under Solvency II
A more proportionate approach to regulating captives is needed, particularly in the hard market, says risk association
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AnalysisBlanc: Insurers must address ‘unmet needs’
Incoming Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) president Peter Blanc is group chief executive of broker Aston Lark
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AnalysisCan parametrics close the gap?
Parametric products have role to play in closing protection gaps and catering to emerging risks like NDBI and cyber
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AnalysisMaking good on a promise
It is in how they manage blindsiding losses that the risk managers prove their mettle
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AnalysisFERMA Talks: Turning to ART
Why alternative risk transfer solutions, such as captives, are compelling tools during a hard market - AXA XL
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AnalysisFerma 2021: Hard market continues
Extreme weather events will focus minds as corporate insurance buyers navigate renewal season discussions - AXA XL
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AnalysisCaptive growth surges, led by PCCs
Marsh helped clients form over 100 captives of all types around the world in 2020, almost double the usual formation rate
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Expert Views10 ways international programmes help you grow your business
Whatever your strategic objectives, there is an important role for international insurance programmes
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AnalysisCapacity and cost an issue amid COVID-19 – IUA
Despite this, the IUA’s chairman says capital coming into the commercial insurance market is a ‘healthy sign’
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AnalysisMS Amlin names Robert Wiest CEO
Wiest joins from Swiss Re where he was most recently chief operating officer
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Analysis‘Radical fresh thinking’ needed to tackle protection gaps
The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a - sometimes uncomfortable – spotlight on the insurance industry
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AnalysisCovid-19 drives losses of £2bn for Lloyd’s
’Financial pressures will continue to affect businesses’ as economies emerge from the pandemic - Insurance DataLab
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AnalysisFlood exposures up by 24% since 2000
Population at risk of extreme flood is ten times higher than previously thought, finds WRN partner Cloud to Street
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AnalysisUK government launches event cancellation scheme
Several syndicates in the Lloyd’s market, including Arch, Beazley, Dale Underwriting, Hiscox and Munich Re, are supporting the initiative
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AnalysisCommercial insurance rates rise 15% in Q2
It is the 15th consecutive quarter of rate increases in the global commercial insurance market, finds Marsh
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AnalysisAon and WTW call off mega merger
Brokers terminate merger agreement following “an impasse” with the US Department of Justice
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AnalysisInsurers must meet buyers’ changing needs
Only 54% of insurance buyers say their cover is addressing their business challenges very well, finds Beazley
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AnalysisIs the ‘harsh market’ starting to ease?
At mid-year, pricing for most classes of business was back to technical levels - but cyber remains an outlier
