Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Is it wise to 'sunset' national natcat re/insurance pools?

    27 January 2026

    The UK has a date to hibernate Flood Re. Australia's insurers suggest the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool might follow suit

  • Chart of the Week - Australia's non-lifers face growing natcat losses (and liquidity needs)

    02 January 2026

    'Keep cash on hand and reinsure, reinsure, reinsure' might be the mantra for insurers of cat-exposed property

  • Comment - How to 'reverse engineer' a property insurer's natcat warning

    29 December 2025

    As 'natcat season' dawns in Australia, insurers roll out the bullet-point warnings...

  • APAC Weekly - Will Australia's public cyclone reinsurer ever run out of puff?

    23 December 2025

    Stakeholders are suggesting the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool could be shuttered

  • Comment: From Bondi to Sydney's sweltering west, Australia's most beautiful city loses its lustre

    19 December 2025

    Terrorism, and mercury, inflict awful costs on Australians, and their re/insurers

  • APAC Weekly - Australia as global reinsurers' 'unpredictable problem child'

    18 November 2025

    A new hotspot is emerging in non-life reinsurers' attempts to help cedants Downunder...

  • APAC Weekly - Aussies and Kiwis 'win' gold and bronze in natcat costs per capita so far this decade

    07 October 2025

    But both nations lag the US by a distance, since the 1980s

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's insurers ditch 'softly, softly' approach to call out governments' poor climate decisions

    27 May 2025

    Rain last week left over 50,000 eastern seaboard residents stranded last week

  • Comment - Why some 'price signals' for Australian property cover are (unfortunately) largely irrelevant

    26 May 2025

    And why ICA's Andrew Hall has the world's toughest job

  • APAC Weekly - Were Australian non-lifers' latest financial results a spectacular own-goal?

    27 August 2024

    Come rain or shine, Australia's general insurers are under somewhat of a cloud