Hedge fund leader Dan Loeb is sticking by his firm’s plans to expand its U.S. book of the reinsurance business with a domestic operation despite two recent underwriting
A key to insured and economic losses tied to still developing tropical system named Hermine may be measuring and anticipating the destruction of protective coastal dunes following the consistent drumbeat
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report this week [https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/reports/51518-Hurricane-Damage.pdf] saying models it ran
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) will consider upping its reinsurance purchase by $100 million, including a reset of its existing catastrophe bond lineup, as it prepares for the June
Warren Buffett is more concerned about global interest rates and the reinsurance industry’s declining float then the possibility of a climate change induced super-catastrophes. “If super-cats become
Greenlight Capital Re issued disappointing earnings this week that is already hitting the stock’s short term performance, but David Einhorn’s firm is facing a longer term threat that
Two reinsurance executives — and a leader of a recently created “takeout” insurer — have placed their names into the process to replace outgoing Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty. Richard McCarty — listed
Citing the “significant” increase in the amount of alternative capital being used by the industry, state insurance regulators are proposing new disclosures of insurance-linked (ILS) holdings within insurers’ financial
The $29 billion Alaska Retirement Management Board (ARMB) hired Schroder Investment Management North America last month to run a $75 million insurance-linked securities allocation, according to board documents. The
Catastrophe modeling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has an extremely “strong pipeline of models” that will be launched in the coming years and executives argue that the delay and development
The largest single shareholder of Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) argues that despite consolidation in reinsurance and stalling premiums, insurers will continue to lay off risk by raising capital through insurance-
The after-tax return-on-equity (ROE) for U.S. homeowners insurance business jumped in 2015 helped by imploding reinsurance prices and catastrophe experience that pushed back loss ratios, according
