What is excess and surplus insurance? Excess and surplus (E&S) insurance is an alternative market for commercial risks that are too complex for standard admitted insurance capabilities. E&S carriers ...

Transactions reveal the attractiveness of the "underwriting plus" business model. The past year has brought heightened M&A activity in the Lloyd’s market, as 2025 transactions underscored the ...

Travelers will scale down the retention on its property catastrophe reinsurance treaty by $1bn to $3bn – although the aggregate protection still sits relatively far out in the tail compared to peer ...

Munich Re aims to derive an 18% return on equity (RoE) from its reinsurance division by 2030, according to a new set of targets. The reinsurer set out Ambition 2030, its latest set of five-year ...

Swiss Re is targeting a 2026 group net income of $4.5bn, with a “refreshed” strategy focusing on AI, increased business-unit targets and a sustainable share-buyback programme. All business units will ...

The risks associated with insufficient public services and social protections, the lack of economic opportunity and misinformation and disinformation are now seen as being significant threats by G20 ...

Looking ahead to 2026, Michael Silas, Head of Global Credit, AXIS, sees mildly positive global growth driven by tech and infrastructure, but says credit sentiment remains cautious and reinsurers must ...

A repeat of the 2022 hurricane season, which led to more than $62bn in insured losses, could generate more than $90bn in insured losses under a 2°C global-warming scenario, MS Amlin has warned.

Nobody likes flying in turbulence, and in recent years aviation insurers have faced their fair share of upheaval. First there was the major claim stemming from the war in Ukraine, and following that a ...

Allowing insurers to receive real-time data from MGAs could eliminate the need for monthly bordereaux reporting, said Matt Hicks, Co-founder, Recorder, during an interview at the Insurance Insider’s ...

Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), a pan-Africa and Middle East-focused reinsurance group, has launched a distribution hub for its Syndicate 2454 in South Africa. ASR launched Syndicate 2454 at Lloyd’s ...