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Credit rating agency AM Best has maintained its stable outlook for the global life reinsurance segment, driven by the expected moderate growth in global life channels and a concentrated traditional reinsurance market, which is dominated by several highly rated, diversified, and well-capitalised global companies with favourable underwriting results. The report noted, “Life reinsurance accounts for…
Donald Trump claimed he and his workers helped at ground zero the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks ― a claim he’s made before, despite no evidence that he or his employees were doing so. “I went down. I was building a building in New York and I had a lot of construction workers,” Trump…
The Great British Bake Off casting team has knocked it out of the park once again. With just two weeks to go until the tent reopens for another season – with new judge Nigella Lawson at the helm for the first time – Channel 4 has introduced us to the 12 new contestants, and they’re…
Finally, we’re starting to get real about menopause. It might have happened to women and people with vulvas for, well, ever but it’s only been over the last few decades that we’ve started to open up about what that actually means. There’s still one criminally under-discussed aspect of menopause we think is due for a…
A GP has opened up about how a strong vaginal odour could signal a fairly common tampon error. In an Instagram post, Dr Nada Hassan spoke of “the smell every GP recognises instantly” – the strong odour emitted from a retained tampon. A retained tampon is pretty much what you’d expect it to be: a…
Speaking during the firm’s briefing at the 2026 Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) in Monte Carlo, Stefan Golling, a Member of the Board of Management of Munich Re, suggested that the industry has not done enough to close the significant cyber protection gap, while also flagging the major business opportunity in doing so as Munich Re…
Compre Group Holdings Limited (Compre), the Bermuda-domiciled international specialty reinsurance group, has reached an agreement on a retrospective structured adverse development cover (ADC) transaction with a Lloyd’s syndicate. The transaction covers the syndicate’s 2023 and prior Years of Account on a whole-account basis, spanning a multi-line portfolio of property and casualty business and assumed reinsurance,…
Speaking at their firm’s briefing in Monte Carlo today, Brandan Holmes, SVP at Moody’s Ratings, and Joe Melly, Head of Casualty and Financial Lines at Moody’s Insurance Solutions, warned that insurers are navigating an increasingly interconnected and uncertain emerging-risk landscape. They said risks are crossing traditional lines of business and becoming more difficult to model,…
According to the International Underwriting Association’s (IUA) latest report, just over 26% of premiums written in London in 2025 were treaty reinsurance, with direct and facultative contracts making up the remaining 74%. These proportions are almost unchanged from the previous year and consolidate a steady increase in the relative importance of treaty business over recent…
Leader of far right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. How do we define the far-right? It’s a phrase which has been long associated with those on the political fringes, like the English Defence League (EDL) and…