Ep 97 Stefan Golling: If we don’t achieve our margins now why should we stay?

Friday Oct 29, 2021

It really matters what today’s guest thinks. This is because he has one of the biggest and most influential underwriting and insurance and reinsurance management jobs in the world.

Stefan Golling serves on Munich Re’s Board of Management and until recently was its Chief Underwriter.

He also looks after Global Clients, the North America Division and oversees HSB and American Modern as well as the Lloyd’s and Bermuda markets.

What I enjoy about talking to Stefan is his disarming frankness. He speaks very clearly for someone in such an elevated position in our industry.

In our chat we cover everything anyone would want to know ahead of the first of January 2022 renewals.

Up until now many have described reinsurers as a relatively benign influence, content to ride on the coat-tails of their cedants as they remediated their books and brought pricing back into line.

Now I’ll leave you to decide if this is just a little bravado on Stefan’s part ahead of upcoming renewal negotiations, but from this encounter I would expect to see reinsurers digging in a little more than they have been up until now.

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