Ransomware has progressively become a loss trend across the cyber industry, with pricing strategies being recalibrated to account for this growing risk. Guy Carpenter is working closely with our clients to share updates on the threat landscape, deliver cyber industry insights, construct relevant modeling scenarios, and design reinsurance placements to protect these portfolios. ... Continue Reading »
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Video: Dean Klisura, President, Guy Carpenter, On the Reinsurance Landscape
Guy Carpenter President, Dean Klisura, speaks with The Insurer on a wide-ranging set of topics that include the Changing Nature of Risk, the COVID-19 excess of loss claims arena, broker consolidation and race for talent, public-private structures for systemic cyber, future pandemic (re)insurance solutions and the insurance-linked securities renaissance. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Peter Hearn: Navigating the Changing Nature of Risk – Opportunities and Reinsurance Support
Peter Hearn, CEO, Guy Carpenter, talks to Asia Insurance Review about the impact the changing risk landscape will have on the insurance industry – how the industry should respond to these changes – and how reinsurance can support these new opportunities. Reinsurance supports insurance carriers in many dimensions – it is a flexible capital tool, it supports growth, and it ... Continue Reading »
Video: UK Climate Stress Test a Sign of Increasing Scrutiny of Insurer Climate Risk
Jessica Turner, Ph.D., Managing Director, Catastrophe Advisory, Guy Carpenter, speaks with The Insurer about the Bank of England’s climate stress test. It is a sign that central banks and international regulators are looking to “ramp up” oversight of insurer climate risk. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Captive Trends and Data – What You Should Know
The use of captive insurance companies grew significantly in 2020, and there are no signs of it slowing down in 2021. The webinar and accompanying slide deck from Marsh McLennan business Marsh highlight the record number of companies that formed a captive last year, how they are using them and what's ahead for the captive industry. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Heightened Volatility and Prolonged Uncertainty To Drive Reinsurance Demand in 2021
David Priebe, Chairman, Guy Carpenter, highlights how, while the industry is facing a range of new risks in 2021, it is presented with new opportunities. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Rate Change Dynamics Heading into 2021
Lara Mowery, Global Head of Distribution at Guy Carpenter, highlights how renewal discussions are focusing on the offsetting trends of underlying rate changes on casualty business and loss activity that has occurred in the past. ... Continue Reading »
Video: (Re)insurance Startups – The Class of 2020
As capital continues to be drawn to the opportunity of improved pricing conditions across the (re)insurance market, the emerging class of 2020 (re)insurance startups is expected to bring both long-term and committed solutions to brokers and cedents, according to Lara Mowery, Global Head of Distribution at Guy Carpenter. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Negotiating the Fine Print of Pandemic Coverage Exclusions
Changes in reinsurance terms and conditions, notably the exclusion of pandemic cover in new and renewing contracts, will be a key feature of discussions as January 1 renewal negotiations come to a close in the coming days. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Cedent Differentiation at the Heart of the Casualty Renewals
Lara Mowery, Global Head of Distribution at Guy Carpenter, highlights how renewal discussions are focusing on the offsetting trends of underlying rate changes on casualty business and loss activity that has occurred in the past. While it will take time for the full impact of this to play out, Guy Carpenter is concentrating on the individual dynamics of the renewal and the ... Continue Reading »
