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Insurance market-size numbers are useful only when the reader knows what is being measured. Gross written premium, direct premium written, paid claims, technical provisions, penetration, density, written policies, and invested assets answer different questions. They should not be…
Reinsurance capacity is easy to overstate if every public capital figure is read as immediately available protection. InsureSouk's Reinsurance Capacity Watch is built to slow that reading down: each signal needs its source, period, line, region, and caveat…
Commercial insurance regulation is often read through the language of rules and exemptions, but the practical market question is broader: how do insurers, brokers, managing agents, and advisers show that complex cover is being distributed with clear governance,…
The Central Bank of the UAE 2024 insurance-sector materials give InsureSouk a source-led route into UAE market growth, paid claims, weather-related losses, broker oversight, and the next phase of mandatory health insurance, while keeping figure-level claims tied to…
Swiss Re's sigma work and IAIS's NatCat protection-gap special topic edition frame natural catastrophe losses as more than a property-insurance pricing problem: the gap between economic losses and insured losses affects households, businesses, public balance sheets, reinsurers, and…
IAIS's 2025 supervisory materials connect private credit, geoeconomic fragmentation, AI adoption, Life and Health structural shifts, and asset-intensive Reinsurance into one governance question: can supervisors see how changing assets, models, and cross-border risk transfer affect insurer resilience? For…
Protection-gap figures can be useful, but they need careful reading when definitions, time periods, risk categories, inflation assumptions, and data sources are not clear. Thesis InsureSouk analysis should treat protection-gap data as a starting point for market inquiry,…