Laurent Rousseau: Soft Markets Create Dangerous Confidence | RVS Monte Carlo #53

Laurent Rousseau has been on both sides of the desk — trading floor, then broking, now running Global Capital & Advisory at Marsh. Reinsurance is softening, capital is emboldened, and everyone's telling themselves this time is different because the models are better. He thinks the accident just comes through a different door. This one's a masterclass in reading a market you can't fully see yet.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

Why "the market is softening" and "the market is safe" are not the same sentence, no matter how good your models are
How to build optionality into your 1/1 reinsurance programme without playing the villain to your long-term partners
Why most reinsurers are less differentiated from each other than they'd like to admit — and what actually separates the ones that are
What it will really take to shake reinsurance out of its complacency on data and tech, according to someone who's watched it stall for years
How to read the "pointillist picture" of Monte Carlo without mistaking a boring consensus for a useless one

EPISODE LINKS:
Laurent's LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-rousseau-27b8a63/⁠

Marsh: ⁠https://www.marsh.com/⁠Marsh Re: https://www.marsh.com/reinsurance

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