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Inside FAC is moving

From 17 August all of the facultative (re)insurance and specialty content hosted on Inside FAC will be moving to our reinsurance and London market title, Insurance Insider.

GC Fac expands property team

Guy Carpenter has made further hires to its facultative division, GC Fac, with the appointments of three senior executives within its property fac segment.

GC Fac launches hybrid unit

Guy Carpenter has launched a new hybrid solutions division within its facultative operation, GC Fac, and has hired Laurence Upton from Willis Towers Watson to lead the new unit.

Analysis

ANALYSIS: Aerospace

The aviation market has had a turbulent few years, but despite coronavirus-related loss of premium income in 2020, continuing rate increases into 2021 could keep it on track to profitability

ANALYSIS: D&O

With businesses everywhere focused on how to stay afloat amid a global pandemic the issue of securing certain types of insurance coverage has become a vexed one.

Analysis: Covid-19

Amid the media hyperbole around coronavirus, the indications that this crisis will significantly change the way we work are already showing in the (re)insurance sector

Market Profile

MARKET PROFILE: Argentina

Argentina has had a difficult 2020, following the ninth default in the country’s history. David Benyon assesses the impact of this plus Covid-19 on the (re)insurance sector

MARKET PROFILE: Germany

German cedants are increasingly looking to facultative reinsurance as a more reliable way of easing the loss burden, writes Helen Yates

Sector Profile

SECTOR PROFILE: A&H

From a hospital case, with declining profitability and worsening claims, the A&H market is returning to good health, with rates having firmed since the onset of Covid-19, writes Helen Yates

SECTOR PROFILE: Trade credit

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the sharpest economic downturn in living memory, prompting governments to backstop the trade credit market against systemic risk. David Benyon reports

Personal Profile

PROFILE: Lockton Re Fac

Lockton Re has leveraged long-standing client and market relationships to get its burgeoning fac business moving, despite the challenges of global lockdown

PROFILE: Michael Papworth

Miller’s Michael Papworth remains a fac broker at heart and is bullish about the future of fac in today’s reinsurance market

Fac Comment

A sailor’s life

Playing a different tune

The new better

The virus of populism