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Why some reinsurers have weaker credit profiles than their rating suggests

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

Japan's insurers preparing to accept more cancer-related risks

S&P Global Ratings says market enjoys high and stable profit margins

S&P Global monitors funded reinsurance risk in Japan

Ratings agency welcomes post-scandal reforms in non-life sector

Australia's health insurers hit 26-year peak in customer numbers in 2023

But S&P Global Ratings warns about return of higher cost inflation

IFRS 17 is "two steps forward, one step back" for insurance accounting

Updated standard removes asset-liability mismatch, but impedes comparability, says S&P

Australian non-life reinsurance costs rise 44% in seven years, S&P Global finds

Premium growth outstripped reinsurance hikes over period

EU's Solvency II reforms could free up to €80bn of capital, S&P estimates

Insurance sector's solvency ratios to benefit by up to 25 percentage points in aggregate

S&P: Iran-Israel conflict unlikely to erupt into full-scale Middle East war

The rating agency says Emea insurers are not currently materially affected by the conflict, but risks remain

Breakeven is best Asia's reinsurers can hope for underwriting in 2024, predicts S&P Global

Rating agency predicts more regular reviews of underwriting assumptions in future

S&P Global predicts less than $1bn of insured losses from Japan quake