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S&P Global Reinsurance Highlights 2011

Global Reinsurance Highlights is an annual publication in association with Standard & Poor's that captures the key issues facing reinsurer management.

You can download the 2011 edition by clicking on the headline below:
Global Reinsurance Highlights 2011

Global Reinsurance Highlights 2011 features articles on the following topics:
- Foreword
- Global sector outlook
- Life reinsurance sector review
- Japan: Earthquake impact
- Japan: How did ERM perform?
- Peer Analysis
- RoE expectations
- Global Reinsurer ERM Report Card
- Regulatory update
- ILS
- Asia Pacific
- European Primary Insurance Outlook
- Asia Pacific

To obtain a copy of Global Reinsurance Highlights 2011, please email Florence Henderson at florence_henderson@standardandpoors.com

Data contained in Global Reinsurance Highlights is derived from Standard & Poor's. For more information on insurance, data, analytics and ratings, click here.

This year's edition was be launched at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, which took place September 10-15.

Ahead of the publication of the hard copy of Global Reinsurance Highlights 2011, Reactions published some of the articles from the edition online:

Regulatory Update - Rating Implications For G-SIFI-Designated Insurers    August 6 2011
The potential designation of insurers as globally systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) is likely to be prominent on the agendas of the CEOs of the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance groups. For those insurers that are designated as a G-SIFI, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services sees this as having a similar impact to solvency reform and the implementation of IFRS.

Insurance-linked securitisation - navigating through a turbulent start to 2011    August 7 2011
Despite a turbulent start to the year, with a number of major catastrophes and a significant model change in the first half of 2011 – expected losses on outstanding deals modeled by Risk Management Solutions (RMS) increased by 90% on average – S&P believes the insurance-linked securitisation (ILS) market has coped well. There has been continued issuance of new catastrophe (cat) bonds, suggesting that the ILS market continues to play an active part in the global (re)insurance industry.

S&P Global Reinsurance Highlights: European Insurance Credit Trends – Despite Strong Balance Sheets, Insurers Are Uneasy About The Future    August 8 2011
Despite the strength of the balance sheets, there are many clouds on the horizon which are making European insurers uncertain about what the future may hold.