Reinsurance Returns On Capital To Be Eroded By 2018 Cat Losses: S&P

Sat, 11/17/2018 - 16:19
by Steve Evans of Seeking Alpha

The catastrophe loss activity witnessed so far in 2018 may be sufficient to ensure that reinsurance companies "return on capital in 2018 may not materially exceed reinsurers' cost-of-capital," according to rating agency S&P.

Standard & Poor's warns that reinsurance firms may be on course for a second year where they struggle to meet cost-of-capital, after the impacts of hurricanes in the United States, a series of typhoons and weather-related disasters in Japan and now the recent wildfires in California, are all accounted for.

Click Here to Read More


Comments (0)