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Increased cost of capital is cooling tuck-in M&A, encouraging a pivot to organic growth and forcing greater creativity around financing.
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The proposed change could disrupt M&A at brokers, shift the calculus in favor of team lifts and dial up C-suite focus on becoming an employer of choice.
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The firm’s strategy to consolidate trading relationships faces fundamental, cyclical and company-specific challenges.
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Larger, better performing, more diversified and more E&S-heavy insurers will be better able to prosper in a more volatile environment.
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Long-term, structural challenges in the class have now been laid bare following the contraction in the treaty market.
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The bank is running a process to seek a minority stake sale of its broking arm, and is in talks with Stone Point and CD&R.
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2022 marked a reversal from last year’s unprecedented levels of global investment in InsurTech as the macroeconomic scenario flipped and investors put lossmaking companies under a magnifying glass.
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Several structural factors, including the pricing cycle, make insurers more insulated from US activist states.
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Consistent underwriting performance, the completion of the exit from life, acquisitions, organic growth and succession planning will all be focuses.
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Private equity is cautious around even the hard market opportunity in cat.
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The intention to potentially sell Attune illustrates Coalition’s desire to refocus its story on cyber – where valuations have held best in harsh market conditions for InsurTechs.
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Normalized cat returns of 25%-30% do not seem to be persuading reinsurers to dial up risk.
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