Long live the customer.
Business for reinsurers in the life and health markets is booming thanks to the fact that people worldwide are living longer. David Fanning reports how companies have switched focus to a matter of life, not death.
Growth in the global reinsurance markets is being driven by the lifeand health sector, which has benefited from a spreading weakness in the
non-life sector due to a succession of highly expensive
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