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“Because of these events and a continuing increase in awareness, I believe businesses are beginning to expand their view of risk simply beyond the traditional cost of risk transfer.”

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“Now that interest rates are coming down, insurers will be looking at how this impacts their profitability and reassessing their reinsurance positions.”

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