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Climate change tops list of world’s ‘extreme risks’

Tim Hodgson, Head of the Thinking Ahead Group, said: “Our extreme risks ranking has seen the emergence of a general trend with financial risks falling down the rankings and non-financial extreme risks growing in significance. Global temperature change becomes the highest ranked risk due to our assessment of higher likelihood coupled with significant impact – in the extreme this would mean mass extinction. 

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Total reinsurance capital at $559 bn in H1 2019, up 8% driven by strong investment markets: Willis Re

The largest component of this figure is the capital of the 36 reinsurance companies tracked in the Willis Reinsurance Index, which was up 11 per cent to USD 440 billion, principally due to falling bond yields and rising equity markets.  The strong investment appreciation was a reversal of the trend noted in the year-end 2018 Reinsurance Market Report. Fresh capital backing the Convex start-up also contributed to the H1 2019 capital growth.

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Global reinsurance market to see consolidation, product & service innovation:S&P

S&P Global Ratings believes that these factors will continue to push the sector to evolve, forcing market consolidation, product and service innovation, expansion of product offerings, and reimagining of the re/insurance value chain. Indeed the market may look different, but it could be a long time before the competitive landscape changes.

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