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Climate change: Risks and opportunities

Guy Carpenter’s Stella Geng on steps reinsurers can take to address climate change impacts.

GC: Cat bonds and parametrics gaining traction in Asia Pacific

Climate change, capital management and the changing nature of risk are set to be the dominant trends across Asia’s insurance landscape in 2024, according to Guy Carpenter’s regional CEO Tony Gallagher.

Addressing volatility in a heightened inflationary and interest rate environment

Guy Carpenter’s Blake Dimitrijevic on the challenges posed by high inflation and interest rates.

Guy Carpenter: Rate cycle has likely peaked in Asia but retentions still rising

Reinsurance capacity is rebounding in Asia but remains more constrained at lower layers, according to Guy Carpenter’s Asia Pacific CEO Tony Gallagher.

Deep market insights empower cyber strategy

Erica Davis and Jess Fung on empowering cyber underwriters to make informed decisions.

Baden-Baden Symposium: Demand for alternative solutions must be met

The (re)insurance sector must make better use of ILS/non-traditional capital and alternative reinsurance structures to meet the changing needs of clients or face losing relevance at a time of heightened risk, industry leaders warned at the Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium yesterday.

Climate change – Evolving risk and regulation

Guy Carpenter’s Sam Phibbs, Katy Reyner and Sandra Hansen on the need to navigate the changing regulatory landscape related to climate change.

GC’s Rousseau: Buyers looking to alternative solutions in bid to smooth volatility

An increasing number of buyers are showing interest in alternative reinsurance structures amid current market dynamics, according to Guy Carpenter’s Laurent Rousseau.

GC’s Rousseau: “Risk-adjusted plus” market phase may be “stickier” amid macroeconomic uncertainty

In his first interview since joining Guy Carpenter as CEO for EMEA and global capital solutions, Laurent Rousseau outlines market dynamics as we head into this year’s Baden-Baden meeting.

Trade credit, bond and political risk: A state of the market summary

Guy Carpenter's David Edwards examines the state of play in the credit and political risk market and looks ahead to January's renewals.

GC-Howden: Marsh McLennan reveals $70mn settlement over unlawful recruitment of employees

Marsh McLennan has reported that it settled a claim with an unnamed competitor earlier this month for $70mn related to the “unlawful recruiting” of a number of its employees in Europe, less than two weeks after this publication revealed Guy Carpenter and Howden had reached agreement in a high-profile dispute.

Marsh McLennan beats EPS consensus and delivers 10% underlying growth in Q3

Marsh McLennan saw adjusted earnings per share rise 33 percent year on year to $1.57 during the third quarter, comfortably beating analyst consensus of $1.39.

Pool Re renews long-standing Guy Carp reinsurance contract following RFP

UK terrorism mutual Pool Re has again renewed its reinsurance broking contract with Guy Carpenter following a competitive tender process, with the Marsh McLennan-owned intermediary handed a three-year mandate with an option to run to five.

Klisura: Guy Carpenter “will not tolerate” talent raids

Guy Carpenter has welcomed the settlement of its London legal dispute with smaller rival Howden Group over the recruitment of 30+ colleagues from its European business, with CEO Dean Klisura saying the last-minute deal sends a “clear signal” that it will not tolerate “unlawful” raids on its workforce.

The wisdom in avoiding the lottery of litigation

The American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce once described litigation as “a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage”, a dictum Guy Carpenter and Howden Group seem to have taken to heart given the last-minute scramble to settle their latest London broker poaching dispute.

Guy Carpenter and Howden Tiger settle European poaching dispute on eve of trial

On the eve of what threatened to be a combustible trial, Guy Carpenter and Howden Group have settled a London legal dispute over the defection of 38 Europe-based former Marsh McLennan employees to the UK broking group.

Guy Carpenter adds Swiss Re’s Dimitrijevic as head of capital advisory APAC

Guy Carpenter has appointed Blake Dimitrijevic as head of capital advisory for the Asia Pacific region.

Deloitte CEO Roundtable: Discussions ranged from an orderly 1.1 to dynamic capital strategies, market sentiment, energy transition and LOCs

Reinsurance market dynamics point to a more orderly renewal at 1.1.2024, but with a clear need for creative solutions that address coverage gaps from recent reductions in capacity, according to a panel of senior industry executives.

Aon surpasses Guy Carpenter in London reinsurance broker bench strength

Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions unit has overtaken Guy Carpenter in the bench strength ratings for reinsurance brokers for the first time in Insurindex’s latest London’s Leading Brokers Report.

Guy Carpenter Symposium set to examine potential role of alternative solutions at 1.1

One of the emerging discussions during #ReinsuranceMonth has focused on the shift away from lower layers by traditional reinsurers, and the need to fill the gaps left by this shift.

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