Guy Carpenter, a leading global risk and reinsurance specialist and a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, today hired Shiv Kumar as President and Global Leader of GC Securities,* Capital Markets. Mr. Kumar was previously Global Head of Insurance Structured Finance at Goldman, Sachs & Co. His 23 years of experience in the (re)insurance sector and capital markets will enhance GC Securities’ ability to identify and execute convergence capital solutions that help clients manage risk.

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• Industry-wide call for increased transparency in cat modeling
• Interoperability facilitates collaboration of multiple data sources
• Open source models allow insurers to develop own view of risk

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Peter Hearn, President and CEO

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• Industry-wide call for increased transparency in cat modelling
• Interoperability facilitates collaboration of multiple data sources
• Open source models allow insurers to develop own view of risk

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Guy Carpenter & Company today announced that James Boyce has been promoted to Deputy CEO, Global Specialties, effective immediately. Based in London, he will report to Kevin Fisher, CEO, Global Specialties.

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GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities LLC, a U.S. registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/NFA/SIPC, participated in today’s pricing of bonds and catastrophe-linked swaps supporting pandemic risk. Part of an innovative new public-private partnership aimed at improving global resiliency and health security, the mechanism provides surge funding to developing countries facing a possible pandemic outbreak. GC Securities served as co-manager of the bonds and joint arranger of the swaps. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) was used by AIR Worldwide to provide expert risk modeling.

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Guy Carpenter & Company hosted an international forum entitled “Building sustainable flood insurance solutions” in Berlin on May 9-10. The event brought together leading figures from science and academia, non-governmental organizations and the (re)insurance industry to examine the rapidly growing impact of flooding and explore measures to significantly reduce that impact.

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Peter Hearn, President & CEO

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• Industry-wide call for increased transparency in cat modelling
• Interoperability facilitates collaboration of multiple data sources
• Open source models allow insurers to develop own view of risk

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Guy Carpenter & Company reports the decline in reinsurance pricing moderated at the January 1, 2017 renewal across most classes of business and geographies, as compared to the past three renewal seasons.  Several sectors experienced increased loss activity, which had only a localized impact on pricing while capacity remained plentiful. After remaining fairly stable in 2015, dedicated reinsurance capital increased by 5 percent from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017 as calculated by Guy Carpenter and A.M. Best. The convergence capital segment increased by 10 percent.

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Guy Carpenter today announced a newly-created Global Strategic Advisory organization comprised of its Advisory, Analytics, Structured Risk, M&A Advisory, Lloyd’s Capital, and Business Intelligence capabilities.

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