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Insurance start-ups’ 2017 financials will disappoint futurists, disruption evangelists, black swan hunters Co-authored by Matteo Carbone, director of the IOT Insurance Observatory, and Adrian Jones, a #traditionalindustry guy...

12 months ago, a surge of interest in 'InsurTech' prompted a serious case of the FoMOs in many (re)insurance CEOs. This year, that Fear of Missing Out has been replaced by a fear of becoming distracted by unproven, niche technologies that...

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FROM SEPTEMBER 10 2017 WE WILL BE FOLLOWING HURRICANES HARVEY AND IRMA IN THE MONTE CARLO 2017 LIVE BLOG     The 12-year-long US 'major hurricane' drought is over with the Texas Category 4 landfall of Hurricane...

Dr Tim Hall 22 MINUTES AGO Harvey’s destruction will take months to tabulate. Some current numbers: 46 confirmed dead, 10,000s in shelters, many more without power or drinking water, standing floodwater water contaminated by sewage and industrial...

The 12-year-long US major hurricane drought is over with the Texas Category-4 landfall of Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Irma may become the second landfall in as many weeks.   ...

How life insurance might hold the key to closing the protection gap Perspectives interview with John Seo, co-founder and managing principal of Fermat Capital The world has a growing protection gap, one that is impossible to close,...

Which Insurtech ideas are likely to have an impact in 2017? Which will turn out to be hype in hindsight? Greg Brown at Oxbow Partners has the answers. With Brexit underway and Trump in the White House, 2016 was not a good year for...

Data from the first few months of 2017 shows that there has been a steep fall in the returns of new catastrophe bonds compared with those issued in the first quarter of 2016. The returns of bonds exposed to US hurricane risk has reached...

Guy Carpenter's Global Property Catastrophe Rate-on-Line index fell 3.7% at January 1 2017, compared to 9.0% a year ago. Reinsurance brokers noted that the US market was relatively stable while other territories experienced larger reductions. RMS's...

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Michael Coles is the managing director of Coles Advisory Partners. He discusses how the last few years have seen an unprecedented level of technological innovation in the insurance industry and what that might mean for the future...

What are some of the most exciting developments in distribution? How might that affect ILS funds? The re/insurance value chain is quite elongated, and there are a lot of premiums coming out of it. The reason we're excited about distribution...

In part two of the interview, Jim Gillard and Tom Mount explain why AM Best is changing its methodology and which types of firm could be affected. How long has the old Best Credit Rating Methodology (BCRM) been around...

In November 2012, Kweku Adoboli was imprisoned for seven years for a fraud that cost UBS over $2 billion. Rival Swiss bank Credit Suisse is now in the process of placing a bond that will protect it from operational risks like this for...

Reinsurers and ILS funds are frequently in the business of risking large amounts of investors' capital based on very little relevant data. Some contracts cover very remote risks such as meteor strikes, others cover risks,...

USAA’s latest catastrophe bond, Residential Reinsurance 2016 Limited (Series 2016-1), is set to achieve the upsized target of $250m of collateralised reinsurance cover, with all three tranches expected to price at the lowest end...

The quarterly   In 2015, the growth rate of the specialist insurance linked funds slowed by more than 50% relative to its peak in 2013.     Net of the organic growth produced by positive returns, capital flowed into the specialist...

The US National Hurricane Center has delivered its final tropical cyclone report for hurricane Patricia, putting the minimum central pressure of the storm at 932mb at landfall on the Mexican coast. This suggests the MultiCat Mexico Ltd (Series...

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Zenkyoren has returned to the cat bond market with a new $200m Nakama Re offering, seeking reinsurance cover for Japanese earthquake events. The indemnity transaction has a similar structure to the mutual insurer's $375m Nakama Re...

The CEO of UK terrorism backstop Pool Re has responded to the French prime minister Manuel Valls' concerns over chemical or biological attacks by terrorist groups. "Pool Re is ready and able to respond to any such heinous assault...

"...usually, over time, consolidation results in opportunities for more-nimble participants to capitalise on the missteps of a big organisation." In the first part of his interview, Dirk Lohmann, discusses retail investors,...