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Shared ‘grief and anxiety’ a powerful unifying factor in COVID fight
“Rarely have we been so united against a common challenge. We must build on this shared sense of grief and anxiety, and work together to not only tackle COVID-19 but all other challenges that stand in our path,” he added.
Reinsurance price rise slowing due to strong capital supply and recovering profitability: Fitch
Fitch expects the sector’s combined ratio, normalised for large losses, to improve by 2pp–3pp in 2021 and another 1pp–2pp in 2022 as price increases gradually feed into underwriting margins.
However, price rises are slowing due to strong capital supply and recovering profitability, and we expect risk-adjusted prices to remain largely unchanged in 2022.
New India’s credit ratings affirmed, with $ 5.1 billion of capital co can insure large overseas risks: AM Best
NIA’s balance sheet strength assessment is underpinned by its risk-adjusted capitalisation, which remained at the strongest level in fiscal year 2021, as measured by Best’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR).Its underwriting portfolio is considered to be well-diversified by line of business, distribution channels and geographically. In addition, the company is the only direct insurer in India with considerable overseas operations, which provide a level of diversification to its domestic portfolio. While the domestic market continues to present significant growth opportunities for New India, intense competition in the largest lines of motor and health business continue to drive premium rate inadequacies and pressure underwriting margins, said AM Best.
RMS to enhance risk analysis for J. B. Boda’s India Portfolio
This agreement will strengthen J. B. Boda’s risk analysis capabilities to enhance their support of clients that have portfolios with risk exposure in India. J. B. Boda continues to grow its activities and client base in various markets. It is further enhancing its in-house capability of assessing risks.
AXA exits insurance operations in Gulf region
The sale of AXA’s 28% shareholding in AXA Green Crescent Insurance Company (in UAE), representing cash consideration of USD 5 million (or Euro 4 million*), has received required regulatory approvals and is also expected to close shortly.
From locusts to cyclones: the human cost of interlinked disasters
The huge locust swarm which hit the Horn of Africa in the Spring of 2020, and Cyclone Amphan, which struck the border region of India and Bangladesh in May that year, might not seem, on the face of it, to be connected, but a report released on Wednesday by UN University, the academic and research arm of the UN, shows that there were connected underlying causes: greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, which are affecting the environment in unpredictable ways, and a lack of sufficient disaster risk management.
India to post strong GDP growth in coming quarters: S&P
”The second wave of the pandemic has been pretty costly to economic activity. Households have been affected …. households are going to be repairing their balance sheets and withholding from spending which means activity will remain below trend once the recovery gets underway”.
India Inc resorted to salary cuts in Q1, will be drag on economic recovery: Report
The “weak” wage growth will prove to be a drag on the overall economic recovery in the medium term as it will affect household consumption, the report by India Ratings and Research said.
An environment of pandemic-led uncertainty and elevated inflation could impact the level of spending and hence the overall demand. Resuscitating wages will be critical for a revival of the overall economy and Capex cycle, which has been languishing even before the COVID-19 outbreak, it said., it said.
In a world first, Cuba to give Covid jabs to anyone over 2
Several other countries in the world are vaccinating children from the age of 12, and some are conducting trials in younger kids. Countries such as China, the UAE and Venezuela have announced they plan to vaccinate younger children, but Cuba is the first to do so. Chile on Monday approved the Sinovac vaccines for kids between six and 12.
‘It’s connected to you’: Shared causes fuel surge in disasters
From Arctic heat and wildfires to Texas cold-weather power outages and Amazon deforestation, threats around the world that may seem unrelated are increasingly compounding each other, United Nations researchers said in a report released Wednesday.
The underlying causes of the rising risks – from climate change to lack of cooperation among governments and ignoring the value of nature in economic decision-making – are common across many of them, researchers said.