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GC Capital Ideas Top Stories: December 2019

1. Competition and Change Are the Only Certainties for P&C Carriers: An abundance of capital from a wide range of sources coupled with evolving catastrophe risks and an extended period of low interest rates, are increasing the pressure on the property & casualty (P&C) industry to continue to increase its focus on underwriting. As such, business models for insurance ... Continue Reading »

Week’s Top Stories: December 28, 2019 – January 3, 2020

Methodological Considerations in the Statistical Modeling of Catastrophe Bond Prices: John Major has authored an article that aims to help actuaries, financial analysts, statisticians, data scientists and their clients better investigate how property catastrophe risk, and particularly catastrophe bonds, are priced. Read the article >> Review of Healthcare Coverage ... Continue Reading »

January 1, 2020 Reinsurance Renewals Reflect Asymmetrical Market

Reinsurance renewals at January 1, 2020, were shaped by deteriorating loss experience, a lack of new capital inflows and increasingly challenged environments in the primary insurance and retrocession markets, according to Guy Carpenter. In its initial view of the January 2020 renewal, Guy Carpenter said that while reinsurance supply was largely sufficient to meet increasing ... Continue Reading »

GC Capital Ideas Tip: Chart Room

We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is why GC Capital Ideas has the Chart Room. If you want to get a quick sense of important industry trends, the Chart Room provides snapshots of everything from catastrophe bonds to the Guy Carpenter World Rate on Line Index. We encourage you to use these charts in your presentations, along with the proper attribution. ... Continue Reading »

How to Blend Tech and An Experienced Workforce

By 2030, the number of employees in the global workforce aged 50 to 64 is projected to increase by 15 percent to 30 percent. Companies thus face a critical challenge: How can they balance automation and digitization ambitions with the growing societal demand to help ensure adequate social protection and well-being for experienced workers? ... Continue Reading »

Week’s Top Stories: December 21 – December 27, 2019

Staying Atop the Changing Cyber Insurance Market Is a Necessity for Boards:  Cyber threats are a strategic enterprise risk that require significant focus and time by boards and C-suite members, among other key stakeholders. Yet, many organizations have worryingly low board and executive-level engagement around cyber risk, according to the Marsh Microsoft Global Cyber Risk P ... Continue Reading »

GC Capital Ideas Tip: Tagging

Every article on GC Capital Ideas is “tagged.” Tags are keywords used to label a particular article. Since few stories deal with only one topic, tags give you several ways to find the information you need. To see an article on a specific subject, just click a tag at the end of an article. ... Continue Reading »