This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK … business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of … insurance firms. The implications of these findings for regulators of GI firms under the coming Solvency II are discussed. …

, with a specific view of the business of insurance and reinsurance companies, who are responding to the widening of the … improving the insurance coverage related to pandemics by establishing (re)insurance schemes and pooling arrangements for other …, many expect insurers to reimburse some of these costs and losses. Insurance companies are also significant investors in …

The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including …; most of which look at narrow elements that determine insurance companies’ performance. This article sought to explore the … components contributing to the financial performance of insurance firms. We employed a sample consisting of 37 general insurers …

The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying … know-how. Following existing analytics of valuation from the ethnography of reinsurance markets and the social studies of …