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NewsHyperion X’s Flandro on driving pricing with data
As carriers gear up to write and place their 1.1 renewal business, Hyperion X’s managing director of analytics, David Flandro, speaks to The Insurer about the dial-shifting possibilities of converting reams of industry data into actionable insights.
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Swiss Re’s Briones on helping clients embrace the future
During this year’s Baden-Baden reinsurance meeting, Swiss Re’s market head for Germany, Katja Briones, spoke to The Insurer about the ways the reinsurance powerhouse is working with insurers to help them face challenges – and opportunities – as the sector evolves.
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Swiss Re’s Baertschi on navigating changing market dynamics
Despite the difficulties that often accompany change, Swiss Re is ready to embrace the market’s shifting dynamics to uncover growth and advancement, according to Swiss Re’s CEO of reinsurance for the EMEA region, Urs Baertschi.
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Combating climate change with catastrophe modelling: RMS’ White
The (re)insurance industry needs to pause, consider the effects and decide how it should react to the pressing risks associated with climate change, according to RMS chief executive, Karen White.
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RMS’ White on using data to promote wildfire to a “big boy” peril
In the wake of record insured loss California wildfire years in 2017-18, CEO of RMS, Karen White, calls for the industry to share a data standard and analytics resources to unlock new ways of dealing with so-called secondary perils.
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How public sector partnerships can build resilience and close the protection gap
Guy Carpenter’s head of public sector EMEA, Ruth Lux, discusses the increasingly important role the (re)insurance industry can play in relieving the burden on taxpayers by providing certainty for global government entities through public sector partnerships.
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Guy Carpenter’s Reina on the evolution of reinsurance buying in Europe and MENA
(Re)insurance buying strategies are continuing to evolve with increasing demand from insurance buyers for a closer relationship with both markets and their brokers, according to Massimo Reina, CEO of Continental Europe MENA at Guy Carpenter.
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Mortgage credit business presents “compelling value proposition”
Jeff Krohn, managing director at Guy Carpenter, discusses what contributing factors are coming together to make mortgage business one of the most profitable areas of business for reinsurers out there.
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Companies must seize ILS development in France
Bertrand Labilloy, chief executive of CCR and chairman and chief executive of CCR Re is also looking for price increases across the book given negative interest rates in Europe.
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Lloyd’s transformation efforts need to maintain momentum
The Future at Lloyd’s project needs to focus on delivering results and realise the time to ask the market what it wants has passed.
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Loss ratios and efficiencies are key drivers for technology adoption
(Re)insurers need to better prepare to adopt technology to make the best use out of data and new insights that will become available to them.
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Guy Carpenter’s Anger confident about ILS issuance
While it’s not atypical for ILS issuance and innovation to slow down following significant loss years, Cory Anger, managing director, GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities LLC and affiliate of Guy Carpenter, remains optimistic about the market.
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Advanced analytics set to unlock future business opportunity
The use of data and analytics will help derive insights which will improve almost all business areas, but the industry needs to be more confident when it comes to utilising this novel information, according to Daniel Knüsli, head of P C Analytics at Swiss Re.
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Data is providing lots of opportunities for “co-creation”
Having fully established that “data is the new oil”, Eric Schuh, global head P C Solutions at Swiss Re, discusses the opportunities arising from the group’s analytical work.
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No “Indian summer” on the global economic outlook front
While the economic outlook looks a bit bleak, against the sunny skies in Monte Carlo, the outlook for insurance is seemingly brighter, according to Jerome Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re.
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Future at Lloyd’s programme set to place innovation “front and centre”
Technology will drive much needed efficiency in the marketplace and once this has been achieved, innovation around the end product can really take off, according to Talbir Bains, founder and chief executive of Volante Global.
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Transparency and consistency key to cedant buying strategy
As the reinsurance, ILS and retro markets continue to show signs of firming, Katie Partington Howarth, group head of ceded reinsurance at Argo Group, discusses the significance around a consistent, nimble approach.
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MMC-JLT deal accelerates Guy Carpenter’s transition plans
Team integration, emerging risks and evolving market dynamics are giving David Priebe, chairman of Guy Carpenter, a lot to be optimistic about at this year’s Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.
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Price increases have to continue: Scor’s Conoscente
Rate increases have been prevalent across both loss and non-loss affected programmes, but Jean-Paul Conoscente, CEO of SCOR Global P C, told The Insurer this must continue.
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(Re)insurance companies must invest more in technology or risk being uncompetitive
Although there is a much stronger focus in the market on driving efficiencies, (re)insurance business could be doing more to improve its engagement with technology.
