Companies maintaining or increasing catastrophe exposure remain the best positioned to take advantage of the dislocation in the wind-exposed property insurance and reinsurance markets, said one leading analyst today.
Bank of America insurance analyst Brian Meredith noted that in the first quarter of 2006 only Arch Capital, Chubb, Hartford and Renaissance Re either kept such exposure flat or increased it.
“Not surprisingly, except for RenRe, these companies had among the lowest losses from the hurricanes last year as a percentage of equity,” Mr. Meredith wrote.
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