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The current hard market phase in insurance and reinsurance "has legs" as the levels of capital remain constrained in both traditional and alternative capital markets, analysts at Barclays have said. Market volatility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the losses it has and is causing, ...
The current hardening cycle in the reinsurance market is expected to last until the end of 2021 by analysts at Jefferies, who also say the broad-based firming is now being seen in almost all lines of business globally. One concern of analysts and market participants is a narrower hard reinsu...
The reinsurance market may enjoy further double-digit price increases at the renewals in early 2021, but with capital now flowing into the sector, Fitch Ratings warns that this will inevitably halt the rate momentum. The good news is that reinsurance rates are catching up with the primary ma...
Insurance and reinsurance market losses from catastrophes and the Covid-19 pandemic already look set to reach somewhere from $100 billion to as much as $160 billion, according to broker Guy Carpenter. The total industry loss in 2020 could even be higher if the Atlantic hurricane season prove...
The global reinsurance market will fail to make returns above its cost of capital due to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Fitch Ratings has said following a review of ratings in the sector. Cost of capital has been something the reinsurance sector has been struggling to earn...
The current dislocation of the mortgage insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) market due to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause mortgage reinsurance rates to rise, impacting the originate to distribute model of many mortgage insurers. Over the last few years, issuance of mortgage insura...
Rating agency A.M. Best said that varying pandemic-related impacts are to be expected for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, with the most concerning likely the fact that collateral could be trapped for years given the significant uncertainty over potential losses. There have alre...
It's too early to say exactly how the current pandemic plays out, but the challenges are expected to provide an interesting test case for the collateralised and insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) business model, according to Frank Majors, Co-CEO and President of Nephila Holdings, and a Direct...
Business interruption claims from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic pose an "existential threat" to the entire reinsurance industry, broker Willis Re said Thursday. At the same time, the pressures from the pandemic are likely to push re/insurers to support their capital through de-risking an...
Third-party reinsurance capital from the insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) market and alternative capital vehicles remains a threat to the stable outlook for the global reinsurance market, rating agency A.M. Best believes. While the rating agency highlights the fact that in reinsurance "tr...