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ARTICLE · 22 JANUARY 2018

Uncharted Waters: Tackling Reinsurers' Riskiest Exposures

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Welcome to Uncharted waters: Tackling reinsurers' riskiest exposures. The report explores the most serious risk concerns among the reinsurers that took part in the Insurance Banana Skins Survey 20171, and how to deal with them.

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Introduction: New forms of risk require new approaches

Welcome to Uncharted waters: Tackling reinsurers' riskiest exposures. The report explores the most serious risk concerns among the reinsurers that took part in the Insurance Banana Skins Survey 20171, and how to deal with them.

Insurance Banana Skins is a unique survey of the issues at the top of the industry's risk register and how these perceptions change over time. The biennial report is produced by the The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CFSI) in association with PwC.

What's most striking about the latest set of results is how far and how fast the risk landscape is shifting. Having for many years been dominated by the familiar headaches of solvency regulation and a challenging market environment, the risks that now cause the most sleepless nights are rooted in the shock and uncertainty of the new.

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