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Reinsurance renewals news
Reinsurance renewals are the key points in the year when the majority of reinsurance contract renewal negotiations occur and are completed.
The reinsurance renewal seasons provide insight into reinsurance pricing, contract terms, reinsurance market positioning and the direction of future trends in the market.
Stagnant pricing trends unlikely to shift significantly in 2019: S&P
16th November 2018
This year's catastrophe losses may cause some reflection within the sector and could provide support to current pricing levels, but the underlying prognosis for relatively stagnant pricing trends looks unlikely to shift significantly in 2019, according to S&P Global Ratings. Furthermore, In the aftermath of last year's record catastrophe losses the ... Read the full article
Zurich expects rates momentum to slow into 2019, says CFO Quinn
14th November 2018
Zurich Insurance Group continues to achieve rate increases across its property and casualty (P&C) lines, but it expects pricing momentum to slow down as it moves into 2019, according to Chief Financial Officer George Quinn. Speaking during a third quarter earnings call, Quinn explained that the overall rate changes experienced over ... Read the full article
Goldman Sachs anticipates muted 1/1 renewal season
13th November 2018
Goldman Sachs expects a muted 1/1 renewal season with flat pricing across the property and casualty lines. Meanwhile, the firm says the main questions around catastrophe losses in 4Q18 will likely be the scale of insured losses from the wildfires currently raging in California, and loss creep from last year's ... Read the full article
Reinsurers need to expand their growth efforts: Industry execs
13th November 2018
Industry executives speaking at the annual S&P Global Ratings 2018 Bermuda Reinsurance Conference have called on market players to expand their businesses and turn their focus from pricing. Executives said that global reinsurance companies would benefit from moving away from a decade-long focus on pricing, which remains competitive and pressured, and ... Read the full article
Positive rate trends continue for most commercial lines: IVANS
12th November 2018
Premium renewal rates continue to see positive increases across nearly all major commercial product lines, according to the October results of the IVANS Index, which tracks commercial premium renewal rates. IVANS, which is a division of Applied Systems, found that premiums increased across almost every major commercial line, with the exception ... Read the full article
Premium growth and rate rises outweigh cat losses for Beazley at Q3
8th November 2018
Strong premium growth across all divisions and an average 3% rate increase on renewal business have driven profits for specialist insurer Beazley at the third quarter of 2018 despite significant catastrophe losses. Gross premiums written by Beazley for the nine months ended 30 September 2018 increased by 11% year-on-year to $1.96 ... Read the full article
Rising P&C reinsurance rates put pressure on Caribbean cedents: A.M. Best
2nd November 2018
Primary property and casualty (P&C) insurers in the Caribbean market remained mired in a protracted soft market cycle, but rising reinsurance costs could force companies to introduce some much-needed rate increases, according to a report by A.M. Best. The rating agency noted that insurers were unable to implement rate enhancements in ... Read the full article
Rates must improve as sector struggles to meet cost of capital: Swiss Re CEO
1st November 2018
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re has underlined the need for further rate improvements across the property and casualty (P&C) industry as the sector continues to struggle to earn its cost of capital. Following years of declining rates and a soft market environment, rates in the highly competitive P&C sector increased at the ... Read the full article
Hurricane Michael to keep a floor under pricing: RLI’s Kliethermes
22nd October 2018
The impact of hurricane Michael and the resulting losses faced by the insurance and reinsurance sector should be enough to keep a floor under pricing, according to RLI Corporation's Chief Operating Officer Craig Kliethermes. Hurricane Michael struck the Florida Panhandle a deadly blow on October 10th, coming ashore as a major ... Read the full article
Hannover Re expects modestly higher premiums and stable conditions in Germany
22nd October 2018
E+S Rück, a subsidiary of Hannover Re responsible for the group’s German business, continues to expect positive premium development in the country’s market for the upcoming round of treaty renewals as at 1 January 2019, albeit at a somewhat more muted pace than in the previous year. "Against the backdrop of ... Read the full article
Reinsurance buyers expect to see greater use of third-party capital: Survey
19th October 2018
The large majority of protection buyers expect to purchase either the same or more reinsurance at the January 2019 renewals, with most anticipating a greater use of third-party reinsurance capital, according to the Reinsurance News and Artemis Reinsurance Market Survey. The survey reveals that over 86% of respondents, of ... Read the full article
IVANS Index September renewals update mixed: KBW
18th October 2018
The IVANS Index - which tracks commercial premium renewal rates - rose sequentially in September for Commercial Auto and Umbrella, and declined sequentially for Business Owner Policy, General Liability, Commercial Property, and Workers Compensation, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. KBW expects commercial casualty rate increases to mostly gain ... Read the full article
Michael will not meaningfully impact reinsurance pricing: J.P. Morgan
16th October 2018
Analysts at J.P. Morgan have claimed that even a loss towards the upper end of the range of initial insured loss estimates for Hurricane Michael would be manageable for the property and casualty (P&C) industry and unlikely to meaningfully affect reinsurance prices. Catastrophe modellers currently put the range of insured losses ... Read the full article
Modest cat losses to pressure rates at 1/1 renewals: Goldman Sachs
8th October 2018
Reinsurance pricing is likely to come under further pressure at 1 January 2019 renewals due to below-average catastrophe losses over 3Q 2018 and a sustained influx of alternative capital, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs. Property catastrophe modelling firms estimate that insured industry losses over the third quarter of 2018 will ... Read the full article
H2 2018 losses by no means benign, but reinsurers able to absorb major event: Analysts
4th October 2018
Despite catastrophe and man made losses in the second-half of 2018 falling below the levels seen last year, so far, analysts at Peel Hunt have said that by no means is H2 2018 a benign loss period, with losses starting to have a meaningful P&L impact. Notable natural catastrophe losses so ... Read the full article