A recently released Swiss Re Sigma report titled “Capital Market Innovation in the Insurance Industry” suggests that the value of alternative risk securitization solutions will increase tenfold by 2010. The report notes that approximately US$12.6 billion has been funneled into…
A recently released Swiss Re Sigma report titled "Capital Market Innovation in the Insurance Industry" suggests that the value of alternative risk securitization solutions will increase tenfold by 2010. The report notes that approximately US$12.6 billion has been funneled into…
The insurance industry’s natural disaster mitigation body, the institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), highlighted the value of research and information sharing between the private, public and scientific sectors at its recent annual general meeting. During 2000, the ICLR formalized…
THE FUTURE OF REINSUR ANCE FINANCING
The prospect of a growing tornado loss potential due to underlying increases in exposed insurable equity coupled with the historical frequency associated with tornadoes do not bode well for the insurance industry’s future.
The insured cost of catastrophic losses for 2000 in the U.S. fell below the past 10-year average to a low of US$4.3 billion, according to the Insurance Services Office (ISO). Last year’s cat loss in value terms was 53% below…
A one-on-one interview with Franklin W. Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA).
Last year was one of the worst years in the 1990s for natural catastrophes worldwide. There were two major earthquakes in Turkey and one in Taiwan, Columbia, Mexico and Greece, making 1999 the year most severely affected by earthquakes since 1976. The earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan claimed the lives of over 20,000 people and resulted in economic losses of approximately US$ 26 billion.
What are some of the world’s reinsurers doing to move forward amid what has been the worst market downturn in recent memory?
For most Canadians, a natural disaster is something that takes place half a world away, generally in poor, under-developed countries, across the hurricane swept Caribbean, or along the southeast coast of the U.S. But more natural disasters are happening in our own backyard, adding to the burden of risk management, and raising concern that resources for immediate disaster relief will be spread too thin.
Included in the federal government budget for the current fiscal year was a long-range allocation of several billion dollars to be earmarked for provincial infrastructural development projects. The property and casualty insurance industry’s recently formed Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction…
With the 1999 hurricane season recently closing with the last minute arrival of Hurricane Lenny causing considerably and unexpected damage in the Caribbean, the timing of the recently jointly held Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) and Insurance Bureau of…