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US D&O rate rises accelerate amid spiralling loss costs

Derivative actions and social inflation have created a significant uptick in claims activity.

John Hewitt Jones, August 27, 2019
Making interest rates grate again

Far from making interest rates great again, rates have returned to levels likely to make investment income grate on returns again.

Dan Lukpanov, August 25, 2019
Hard market watch: CIAB edition

Looking past the somewhat misleading averages, granular disclosures in the CIAB survey suggest significant pockets of the market are the hardest they have been for close to two decades.

IPC Research, August 22, 2019
Commercial auto: The Progressive problem

Progressive’s monster growth in Commercial Auto is becoming harder to ignore as a contributing factor to market-wide dynamics.

IPC Research, August 19, 2019
Maiden to stakeholders: Drop dead

A series of transactions that appear to benefit sister company AmTrust at its own expense raises questions about whose interest the firm is being run for.

IPC Research, August 15, 2019
Progressive: Positioned to outlast peers

Progressive's July results point to continued downward pressure on pricing as firms compete for market share in personal auto.

IPC Research, August 14, 2019
Auto: Pricing hits new lows

New inflation data showed pricing continued to weaken in July as companies pivot to growth. With flat severity, margin pressures are building. Frequency remains the wildcard.

IPC Research, August 14, 2019
Auto: The "overshoot" risk begins

Headline results at auto insurers remain strong. Even so, as the market shifts to a more pro-growth stance, the risk of overshooting on price competition always increases.

IPC Research, August 12, 2019
AIG: The three-step master plan

We have written extensively our conviction 2019 would prove an inflection point. However, it is now clear even we underestimated the extent management would wield the axe.

IPC Research, August 08, 2019
Hedge Fund Re: The irony factories

It’s tough out there for total return reinsurers. Our view is that the current valuations of total return reinsurers are unsustainable, and that the group are vulnerable to M&A and activism.

IPC Research, August 07, 2019

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