Reinsurance
55 whitepapers and resources
Reinsurance
Insight briefing: It’s time to (re)evaluate the risks of protectionism
This insight briefing examines examples of protectionism against foreign (re)insurers, and looks at the problems that such actions can cause for the jurisdictions that enact them.
Catastrophe risk tolerance study
Aon Benfield’s annual Catastrophe risk tolerance study examines the catastrophe risk public disclosures of 102 reinsurers and insurers in four different sectors. The study includes trends on how catastrophe risk exposures and tolerances have varied in recent years, plus the actual risk disclosures.
Evolving criteria bulletin - Update on Stochastic-based BCAR
On May 5, A.M. Best published a briefing on initial industry feedback regarding the US P&C Stochastic BCAR Model. This article provides a summary of Aon Benfield’s views on the briefing and covers the use of extreme tail events for measuring capital adequacy plus VaR metrics for risk modelling.
Global catastrophe recap: April 2016
Global economy suffers worst April severe weather losses for five years, according to Aon's catastrophe study. Impact Forecasting continuously tracks the worldwide natural disaster perils and aggregates the insured and economic losses for each region in this monthly report.
Insurance linked securities consultation
This consultation focuses on the government's plan to attract more insurance linked securities business to the UK in order to strengthen the UK’s position as a leading global hub for specialist reinsurance.
The benefits of open reinsurance markets
Produced by Insurance Europe's Reinsurance Advisory Board, this paper focuses on the benefits of open reinsurance markets.
Internal models: A reinsurance perspective
Published by Insurance Europe's Reinsurance Advisory Board, this report focuses on the use of internal models by reinsurers. Topics covered: history and experience of internal model use by reinsurers; benefits of using internal models for prudential purposes; the future for internal model use.
Summary of market access issues for European insurers and reinsurers
This paper highlights the key regulatory and market access issues that EU (re)insurance companies encounter in the United States, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, China, Argentina and Russia. The paper highlights how existing trading relationships could be enhanced by the removal of barriers.
Global catastrophe recap: March 2016
Aon's latest catastrophe report studies the economic impact of hurricane-force winds and flooding in northern Europe, thunderstorms and heavy rain in China, plus severe weather in the United States where insured losses totalled USD2.0 billion.
Reinsurance market outlook: April 2016
Aon's latest reinsurance market outlook provides a comprehensive analysis of the key variables affecting reinsurance buyers during the April 1 reinsurance renewals. Topics covered include: reinsurance capital levels; reinsurer supply; APAC regulatory developments; Q1 catastrophe losses.