reinsurance

The government is to report on progress in attracting more reinsurance business to the UK at Budget 2015, according to yesterday's Autumn Statement.

Swiss Re has reported a dramatic decrease in its life and health insurance business, its nine month figures for 2014 have revealed.

Life insurance companies and reinsurers love a bit of jargon, so what is retrocession and how do companies use it? Mick James explains

Reinsurers are facing increasing competition and need to adapt to a changing market a forthcoming publication by Standard & Poor's (S&P) will say.

Hong Kong-based reinsurer expands by gaining a life license and building a new team.

Record GWP in a benign year for catastrophe claims.

Fitch ratings has said the outlook for the reinsurance industry remains "stable" , with poor investment returns and softening prices the main clouds on the horizon.

Insurer growth will not be about products but rather distribution individuality, RGA said at its conference yesterday.

The widening critical illness protection gap will only get worse but there will be no easy answer, reinsurer RGA has said.

Reinsurance capital continued to strengthen through the second quarter of 2012 as a result of limited exposure to catastrophe losses in the opening six months of the year.