Insurance Market Mired With Uncertainty
16 Mars 2012 - 1:20PM
Marketwired
The property & casualty insurance industry has posted mixed
results of late. Although the SPDR S&P Insurance ETF (KEI) --
which seeks to reflect the performance of approximately 24 property
and casualty insurance companies -- is up more than 3 percent over
the last month and is outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial
Average, analysts warn the industry continues to face uncertainty.
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According to a recent report from S&P, the Property &
Casualty Insurance industry continues to contend with challenges
including "economic uncertainty, lower reinvestment returns due to
low interest rates and multiyear price declines and stagnating
reserve releases for the commercial lines sector." S&P argues
that in pricing for commercial lines insurers may have reached an
inflection point during second-quarter 2011 when rates started to
flatten, while rates in the personal lines insurers sector have
been moderately improving since early 2008.
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In a recent report titled "Opportunities in Reaching the Middle
Market with Life Insurance," Conning estimates the middle market
life insurance protection gap to be $10.2 trillion -- a 56-percent
increase when compared to the firm's last study of the middle
market in 2006. The report finds that the total number of lives
covered by individual and group life insurance reached its highest
point in 2003, but since then, has declined at an annual pace of
1.6 percent.
Earlier this week MetLife Inc., whose plan for a share buyback
was rejected by the Federal Reserve, led life insurers lower in New
York trading on speculation the industry's biggest companies may
face tighter capital rules. According to a report from Bloomberg,
MetLife is required to get Fed approval for its capital plans
because it owns a bank, while Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential
isn't subject to the same scrutiny.
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