Preannouncements highlight messy Q3 reporting season ahead

Published: Fri 16 Oct 2020

Last night’s flurry of preannouncements from US-listed (re)insurers provided a flavour of what’s to come as the Q3 earnings season gets underway this month, with frequency of cat losses, Covid-19 updates, pricing commentary, macroeconomic pressures and the trendline of underlying loss ratios set to dominate.