Insight and Intelligence on (Re)insurance Convergence with the Capital Markets

4 February 2012

Too flexible?

2 September 2010

The flexibility of capital is much vaunted as a positive side effect of convergence, and I tend to agree.

(Re)insurers have come to rely on the valuable cash injections from dedicated cat funds and speculative investors alike in the face of capacity crunches.

Notably, investors played their role to perfection with the flourishing of sidecars post- Katrina, providing capacity to (re)insurers at a peak in the market, and allowing the traditional market to profit from cyclical pinch-points in the process...

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