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  • Why some reinsurers have weaker credit profiles than their rating suggests

    17 September 2024

    Reinsurance carriers that are part of a group can often have different credit profiles than are implied by their credit ratings, as Stuart Shipperlee explains

  • Diverging outcomes for big four reinsurers at mid-year renewals

    19 September 2023

    The UK-based consultancy said results at Hannover Re, Scor, Munich Re and Swiss Re represent a "bellwether" for the market

  • S&P to release draft capital model in second shot at reform

    17 March 2023

    Rating agency responds to industry demands regarding model update

  • Stress testing reinsurer resilience to reserve shocks

    06 September 2022

    Stuart Shipperlee discusses Litmus Analysis' examination of 35 leading reinsurance carriers to understand their overall resilience to reserve shocks, and notes very significant individual variances

  • AM Best shifts cat risk assessment in BCAR update

    10 November 2015

    Interest rate risk and dependence on reinsurance are the other key changes to calculation of insurer credit ratings. Asa Gibson reports