Intelligent Insurer


EDITORIAL Speed dating is only part of the picture


 


  Email: info@newtonmedia.co.uk www.intelligentinsurer.com


 Nicholas Lipinski


 Wyn Jenkins


 Email: wjenkins@newtonmedia.co.uk


 John Walsh


 Email: john.walsh@newtonmedia.co.uk


 


 Email: dward-penny@newtonmedia.co.uk


 James Lynn


Email: jlynn@newtonmedia.co.uk


 


 Email: cmilton@newtonmedia.co.uk


 Kirsty Whittle


 Email: kwhittle@newtonmedia.co.uk


 Jenny White


Email: jwhite@newtonmedia.co.uk


 


 Fisherman Creative


  


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 


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he current wave of consolidation in the reinsurance industry is no surprise. The market has been under sustained pressure from so-called new capital and surplus capital for many years now.


It is very competitive and hard to make good margins in the reinsurance industry at present


  so far may have raised a few eyebrows but the overall trend has been long anticipated.


  company Exor making a rival bid to acquire PartnerRe from under the nose of its current suitor Axis Capital.


 


   


 no existing connections to the industry.


 


 how attractive the reinsurance sector remains for many investors.


The fact is that reinsurance remains an extremely alluring investment against the context of the wider


   partners should bear this in mind.





   





gaps will inevitably be created in the market around more specialist or bespoke types of coverage. What is 


Just as the industry has seen waves of start-ups in the past—usually in the aftermath of big losses—the  shortage of backers.


  





 they will take the form of increasingly sophisticated and innovative risk transfer vehicles.


The shape of the reinsurance industry will continue to evolve and the big mergers and acquisitions we


are seeing now will be only part of that picture. 


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