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Cat-bond issuance hit a record $50 billion in 2024
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OneWeb signs unveils insurance programme for its satellites
Marsh arranged a multi-launch insurance programme covering physical loss or damage to the remaining GEN 1 satellites and launch vehicles with a global panel of leading specialist insurers. The insurance programme underpins the next stage in the development of OneWeb’s global communications capabilities.
SCOR’s announces changes to its Group Executive Committee
Laurent Rousseau, Chief Executive Officer of SCOR, comments: “These internal promotions bear witness to the depth of SCOR’s talent pool and the strong competencies of our rising leaders. We are mobilised to accelerate the company’s profound transformation provided for in the “Quantum Leap” strategic plan and accelerate long-term value creation for all our stakeholders.”
Surging collision risks Satellite and Space Debris force insurers to exit satellite coverage market
Space coverage has been a lucrative niche for insurers, which took in $475 million in gross premiums to cover satellites, rockets and unmanned space flights last year and paid just $425 million in losses, according to Seradata.
Space premiums are 10-20 times aviation premiums, said Peter Elson, CEO of insurance broker Gallagher Aerospace.
Only 11 spacecraft have suffered a partial or total failure due to suspected debris strikes over the past decade, according to Seradata, making insurer worries largely theoretical for now.
Yet because insurers predict risks over the life of current and future policies, space underwriters fret over doomsday scenarios years ahead.
Aon acquires 100% of its Indian JV, buys out 51% from Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran
Aon is the second intenational broker, after another USA based Galligher, that has now a fully owned company in India after the government allowed 100 per cent FDI in the domestic insurance intermediaries sector two years back.
Munich Re raises €1bn green bond
Christoph Jurecka, chief financial officer(CFO), Munich Re , said climate protection is an integral part of our Ambition 2025 Group strategy.
“By issuing a green bond, we have once again leveraged the capital markets to fund green investments. We strengthen our capital base, which gives us the financial flexibility to take advantage of current growth opportunities,” he said.
Swiss Re creates a central cyber underwriting team,John Coletti to head Global Cyber
With his expertise, John Coletti will help Swiss Re to address the complex nature of cyber risk, including important industry issues such as ransomware and risk aggregation. John Coletti will report into Gregory Schiffer, Head of Global Specialty, and will be responsible for Swiss Re’s global cyber business, which includes portfolio ownership, global underwriting activities as well as cyber product development.
India’s monsoon rainfall forecast to be above average in September
Nearly half of India’s farmland gets no irrigation and is dependent on the annual rains from June to September. Farming accounts for nearly 15% of the economy, Asia’s third-biggest sector, but sustains more than half of a population of 1.3 billion.
Weather disasters becoming more frequent and costly, UN agency says
“Thanks to our early warning service improvement we have been able to have a decrease of the casualties at these kind of events, but the bad news is that the economic losses have been growing very rapidly and this growth is supposed to continue,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas told a press conference.
“We are going to see more climatic extreme because of climate change and this negative trend in climate will continue for the coming decades,” he said.
Total global reinsurance capacity rises 7% to $ 517 billion in 2020, Munich Re regains top ranking: AM Best
From Asia, there are three reinsurers which are part of top 15 global reinsurers. They are China Re, Korea Re and India’s state owned GIC Re(13), with a global premium of $6,481 billion in 2020.
Although the global reinsurance industry has been able to absorb the exceptional shock from the COVID-19 pandemic, perils that are becoming more complex and interrelated highlight the need for innovation to cover unmodeled risks as they emerge, and traditional risks as they evolve, according to the special report.
20 APAC re/insurers record a higher premium of $821.4bn in 2020, COVID induces demand for life & health products, GlobalData
Seven players reported more than 5% rise in premiums earned. In addition, the top companies maintained financial robustness through flexible hedging of assets under management.The most notable performers in the region were Japan-based insurer Dai-ichi Life, China-based New China Life Insurance and China Reinsurance; and Taiwan-based Cathay Financial.Dai-ichi Life outperformed the top players, with its revenue growth surpassing 20%, as the weaker Yen allowed the company’s returns from its investments soar significantly over the previous year.
China Reinsurance reported 19.2% increase in y-o-y revenue owing to swift growth in savings- and protection-type life, domestic P&C reinsurance, and health reinsurance business, which led to 16.2% growth in premium income; and obtaining surplus investment returns by surpassing the market benchmarks.