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World Insurance Report

Sewing the seeds of change

Preliminary evidence from the end of the renewals season suggests that, even with plentiful capacity, reinsurers have held the line on pushing up rates as pressure to improve bottom lines increases. This determination to break the nexus between low rates and excess capacity was prompted by the bad results of 1999.

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