Over the last 18 months, ESG has become a lightning rod — challenged politically, questioned commercially, and diluted by overuse. In response, some asset owners have reclassified assets. A few managers have stepped back from public commitments. And more than a few headlines have declared ESG’s demise. But our most recent Study suggests something else entirely.
Momentum to maturity: ESG recalibrated Read More »
Reinsurers have found a new source of strategic leverage — and it is digital. As their platforms mature into full-scale risk solutions, they are not just supporting underwriting. They are starting to shape how reinsurance is placed, priced, and grown.
Reinsurers quietly reshape digital underwriting Read More »
While the age of ‘gentlemen’s agreements’ has long since passed, trust remains at the foundation of all reinsurance partnerships. It follows that trust associations of reinsurer brands offers a valuable lens on current (and future) performance.
Our 2024 Global Top 50 P&C Re Brand Rankings highlight the differentiated brand experience of reinsurers, offering insights into overall brand performance.
Our global perspectives on the P&C reinsurance industry are drawn from the feedback of more than 2,000 insurance executives and reinsurance brokers (P&C Re Study 2022; February-June 2022) as well as our broader industry activity and networks. Repricing at the 1/1/2023 renewal, as anticipated by insurers (although not in its extent), has produced something for a reset for the industry heading into 2023.
Global Trends & Performance Read More »
The effects of climate change are increasingly evident. Who better than re/insurers – blessed with the advantages of data, expertise, and balance sheets – to play an outsized role in driving broad-based adaptation to changing global climate, as well as the transition to net zero?
Outsized capabilities, outsized impact Read More »
That institutional customers would look for long-term relationships with ‘good partners’ is both intuitive and uncontroversial: broadly, and across industries. Less well appreciated perhaps is that core to successful long-term partnerships is a well-formulated, effectively communicated strategy.
The cascading benefits of good strategy Read More »
This article is founded on evidence and observations in the global asset management industry; however, the learnings may equally apply to other industries where business-to-business relationships have traditionally been supported through face-to-face engagement.
Building relationships in the new era of engagement Read More »
Brand awareness of the largest reinsurance brokers is near ubiquitous among insurers (and reinsurers), although institutional focus and capabilities, corporate personality & culture as well as customer engagement models offer critical differentiators beyond awareness. Sustained levels of differentiation inevitably become visible in ‘brand experience’.
Broker brand power Read More »
The collective investment being made in transforming the life insurance proposition exceeds anything seen in the last thirty years – a working lifetime.
Reinsurance Reloaded Read More »
