HVRRY News and Press, Hannover Rueckversicherung SE ADR From 03/20/19

In 2018, when global investors suffered as markets fell and equities in many cases failed to perform, investments in some asset classes that had been promoted as diversifying failed to deliver on their promise, Natixis Investment Managers said. The decline in global equity markets contribute...

ILS funds and collateralised reinsurance markets have more work to do on gaining market share in Japan, according to analysts who say that relationships with traditional reinsurers continue to dominate there. With the upcoming April 1st reinsurance renewals forecast to see price increases af...

Insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) and reinsurance-linked investment funds managed to achieve a slightly below average monthly return of 0.51% in January 2019, despite the continued impact of loss creep from previous events. The impact of the last two years of catastrophe losses continues t...

Weston Hicks, the President of the Alleghany (Y) insurance, reinsurance and investment group, has warned re/insurers that provide fronting and transformation services to the ILS and collateralized market to beware of being left holding the tail risk. Hicks has a record of highlighting any po...

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re (SSREY) is forecasting improving rate conditions across insurance and reinsurance business after its results were dented by catastrophe losses in property and casualty lines and its commercial underwriting arm. Swiss Re reported its full-year 2018 results Th...

COIN Reinsurance believes that the inevitable escalating rate hikes that hit insurance buyers due to loss adjustment and assignment of benefit ((AOB)) expenses can be countered by lower cost reinsurance for carriers. COIN Re, a recently launched Florida focused and headquartered property r...

The catastrophe bond market's merit was underscored by the way it continued to operate effectively despite recent volatility stimulated by catastrophe losses, but after the losses it is expected that investors will want to see cat bond rates harden, according to Swiss Re (SSREY). The global ...

Australian primary insurer Suncorp ([[SNMYF]]) is set to raise its budget for natural catastrophe losses and plans to buy A$200 million more reinsurance cover for the next financial year, while at the same time the insurers' CEO acknowledged that climate change is driving more frequent losses ...

Pricing and profitability in reinsurance remain uninspiring following the January 1st renewals, but that doesn't stop some larger players from soaking up business at inadequate prices, according to rating agency A.M. Best. We've discussed the fact that major reinsurers are underwriting div...

A combination of increased demand and constrained supply bodes well for attractive returns for the insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) sector going forward. And while the market is expected to grow in 2019, it's likely to tread carefully on the back of two heavy catastrophe years, according to...