Global insurance trends

Swiss Re Looks Ahead to Successful 2025, Sets $4.4bn Target

The latest from Swiss Re who are looking ahead and thinking positive; Swiss Re announces its targets for 2025, including a Group net income of more than USD 4.4 billion. The Group also aims to grow the ordinary […]

News

Over 600 Insurers Now Making $1bn in GWP Says Insuramore

According to global rankings updated recently by Insuramore, and across life/annuity, health and P&C (non-life) business combined, 638 insurer (i.e. carrier / underwriter) groups worldwide were “insurer billionaires” in 2022 having achieved gross direct premiums […]

Opinion

Billions on Net Zero, While Rishi Dishes Out Budget Pain

The latest update from HM Govt shows how disconnected from the reality of ordinary life the current regime is. As people ration food, energy and fuel to cope with 30% price inflation, billions of taxpayers […]

News

Is the Insurance Sector Still Deal Hungry? GlobalData Survey Q4 Data Here

The UK insurance industry saw a drop of 6.5% in overall deal activity during Q4 2019, when compared with the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. A total of 29 deals worth $4.86bn […]

InsureTech

$1.5 Billion Worth of Insurtech Investment in Q3 This Year

Total new worldwide funding commitments to the InsurTech sector in 2019 have already surpassed the 2018 full-year total, and during the third quarter exceeded $1.2 billion for the fifth consecutive quarter-year period, according to the […]

InsureTech

Insurtech Report Offers Unique Insights into UK Investment Levels

The Insurtech M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisors, Hampleton Partners, reveals that 2019 global fundraising for insurtech neared $3 billion in 1H 2019 and is on track to reaching $6 billion by the […]