Opinion

Hurricane season is now open, but I’d argue that the persistent headwinds facing the reinsurance industry are far more challenging than anything the Atlantic may send its way this summer.

Reinsurers are taking different approaches to their third-party capital management strategies.

The concept of reinsurance market “payback” – higher premiums that follow major losses – might well be dead.

Ever heard the underwriting joke about how to spot the actuary driving a car?

These days almost all reinsurers are officially aboard the ILS bandwagon. But is all ILS capacity created equal?

As a journalist, you quickly learn the Q&A sessions that follow industry presentations are often among the most illuminating exchanges of an event and can give you a better headline than the official takeaway points.

London may be a huge city, but there are a few things that can make it feel like a village, when all inhabitants are in sync and turning out to enjoy their home town together.

Earlier this year, while reinsurance risk-takers were being buffeted by winter storm losses and rising wildfire and hurricane claims, another niche corner of the financial markets was experiencing its own "vol-mageddon".

In the past week, several signs of distress have been emerging in the (re)insurance industry, which had seemed to rebound so quickly from last year's catastrophes.

Is catastrophe risk as exotic as the reinsurance industry thinks it is?

One of the major post-HIM talking points in reinsurance circles was the question of whether there was a gap in loss estimates recognised by individual carriers and the overall anticipated industry burden.

I took a three-week holiday in the sun in December - not the sort of thing you want to go bragging about in the reinsurance market when many people are working late nights in the run-up to the 1.1 renewals