Reinsurer capital falls 2% in 2015: Aon Benfield

Global reinsurer capital fell 2 percent to $565bn in 2015, driven
by a strong US dollar and rising interest rates on bond valuations
hitting unrealised losses, according to Aon Benfield.
The broker's Reinsurance Market Outlook April 2016, released
yesterday (7 April), also noted that alternative capacity had
increased by 12 percent year-on-year to $72bn, and now constituted
12 percent of total global reinsurance capital.
Nearly $6bn of additional alternative market reinsurance
capacity was secur