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Welcome to Carrier Management's Reinsurance Hub

Welcome to the Big Re, Carrier Management's hub for reinsurance. Launched during the week of what would have been the Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre, this special page aims to provide ...

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COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Lessons to Learn, Digital Opportunities

In every crisis, lessons must be learned, but opportunities also are revealed. And so it goes with the COVID-19, which has shown the need for contract certainty in the re/insurance industry, while ...

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Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices

Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in ...

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Hardening Re Market Doesn't Look Like Mid-1980s or 2005

Reinsurance price hikes and capacity changes are not reminiscent of prior hard markets, participants said in quasi-Rendez-Vous meetings, with some going as far to say that current price changes ...

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Casualty Re Market 'Rational' Despite Whiplash on Social Inflation

A COVID-driven deflation in lawsuit trends is giving reinsurance brokers ammunition to achieve better outcomes for their clients in a hardening casualty reinsurance market, according to an Aon ...

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Underwriting Discipline Will Rule With January 1 Reinsurance Renewals

Economic uncertainty and volatility, in combination with COVID-19-related losses, is leading to a heightened level of cautiousness among property reinsurers unless pricing and terms and conditions meet specific thresholds, according to Lara Mowery, global head of distribution, Guy Carpenter.

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Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Apart

Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model. "For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have ...

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Lockton Re Imagined: Bringing Choice to Reinsurance Brokerage

While some reinsurance brokers see opportunities to achieve significant economies of scale in the reinsurance market through acquisitions, others see opportunities to grow by providing reinsurance ...

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