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With China increasingly keen to offset some of its huge insurance liabilities, a process recently crystallised by the placement of a breakthrough insurance-linked security on the Bermuda Stock Exchange, Bermuda:Re+ILS asks whether Bermuda is well placed to take advantage of China’s desire to embrace international risk transfer. 21 September 2015
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Solvency II equivalence is important to Bermuda not only from a regulatory perspective but also because it will ultimately enable it to continue to innovate in the way it always has, David Thompson and Agam Jain from KPMG in Bermuda, tell Bermuda:Re+ILS. 21 September 2015
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Cyber risk has come out of nowhere to be the third most worrying risk for the Bermudian re/insurance sector, as reported in the biennial Insurance Banana Skins survey, as Arthur Wightman of PwC Bermuda explains to Bermuda:Re+ILS. 21 September 2015
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In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest ever natural disaster, much has changed in terms of the industry’s understanding of natural disasters and the models used to price the risk associated with them. Two risk modelling specialists describe some of the advances that have been made in recent years around wind and earthquake modelling. 21 September 2015
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Despite its importance and for all its innovation over the years, the re/insurance industry has not historically been as attractive a career choice to young people as other financial services sectors. That is now changing. As part of a wider feature available online, Bermuda:Re+ILS speaks to 35 young executives—all under 35—tipped for bigger things. 21 September 2015
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As Bermuda seeks to work with a new generation of companies and financial institutions against a backdrop of increased competition among international financial centres, Ross Webber, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Business Development Agency, explains to Bermuda:Re+ILS the challenges and opportunities that must be dealt with by the jurisdiction. 18 September 2015
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The global reinsurance sector has jumped on the M&A bandwagon as management teams and their respective boards of directors are placing renewed attention on growth and responding to cedants’ changing demands for greater scale, as Taoufik Gharib and Dennis Sugrue of Standard & Poor’s explain. 18 September 2015
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While so many of Bermuda’s players remain embroiled in either pre or post-consolidation dislocation, Markel sits almost alone. It completed its own M&A strategy two years ago and is now navigating the changing environment steered by its young dynamic leadership team. 14 September 2015
ILS
The way industry loss warranties are used by the industry can shed light on pricing trends and other sentiments among risk carriers. Stephen Postlewhite, chief executive of Aspen Re, explains to Bermuda:Re+ILS some of his theories on the way these risk transfer tools are being used. 12 September 2015
Re/insurance
A recurring question around the long-term role so-called third party capital may—or may not—play in the global risk-transfer markets is: what happens if interest rates rise? Here, Darren Redhead, CEO of Kinesis Capital Management, the third party capital underwriting manager owned by Lancashire, explains his theory on why this would make little difference to the market. 7 August 2015
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