スペインの保険会社のMAFRE と CATALANA DE OCCIDENTE は、国内不況の影響を受け、海外進出などの多様化や、新しい規則に対応して、不況を乗り切る
Las aseguradoras encajan el golpe
Mapfre y Catalana se diversifican para sobrevivir a la crisis y a los reguladores
Carlos Gómez 30 SEP 2012 - 01:48 CET
Insurers hit fit
Mapfre and Catalana diversify to survive the crisis and regulators
Carlos Gomez 30 SEP 2012 - 01:48 CET
The two large insurers listed Spanish, and Catalan Mapfre West, have seen their earnings in the first half, but still resisting with success on the effects of the crisis. The blows to them propinan a domestic market in recession, a runaway sovereign debt, and that no one matches to bridle, the impact on their balance sheets and restructuring strategies savings banks, which have shared with business and capital, and doubts about the health of Spanish banks and the bailout requested for her to Europe.
Moreover, the short and medium term, will suffer the effect on their accounts of the last increase in VAT in Spain, via inflation, and uncertainty about the text and the date of entry into force of the European standard Solvency II, the new risk estimation system and calculations of capital requirements of the insurance industry.
Mapfre In this scenario, the leader, has seen its profit by 20% in the first half, due in part to the provision you have made for your investment in Bankia, but put a good face and emphasizes that the growth of its gives foreign business and recurring income half and two thirds of the premiums, helping to offset the decline in its business in Spain.
Its revenues grew by 30 June 1, 13%, and recurring profit increased by 10.2%.
A very relative exception
The Mutua Madrileña Group has been an exception, in relative terms, between large Spanish insurance in the first half, registering an increase of 9.1% in its net profit (108.20 million) for the first half of 2011. Do check the rooftops, however, and warns that increasing your profit will be less likely in the second half of the year "by the difficult market situation."
Its premium income rose 3.6% in the first half, compared to the rest of widespread falls sector. In this period, the group managed to attract 887,877 new life policies and non-life, representing an increase of 8.6%.
The growth is due to the good performance of traditional business and incorporating SegurCaixa Adeslas Mutual Society which owns 50% since June 2011. And also respond to mutual agreement between La Caixa and to distribute exclusively and indefinitely products SegurCaixa Adeslas No Life through the bank's commercial network.
These results, according to the company, show the "positive development" group "despite the difficult economic situation in Spain, and demonstrate the success of its strategy of sustained development and diversification in recent years."
Mutual intends to launch its international expansion in Eastern Europe and Latin America next year.
"Despite the extreme volatility and the difficult economic situation, these results [the first half] show the strength of the business model, diversification and technical precision that allows us to navigate stormy waters in a reasonable," said Esteban in July Tejera, vice president of the insurer.
Diversification has become key foreign accounts Mapfre. In the first half, showed strong growth of the insurance business in all Latin American countries, where it reaches a value premium of 4,298 million euros, 46.4% more than the same period of 2011, and especially in Brazil where grew by 75% to 2.325 million by consolidating and six months (compared to one in 2011) of the partnership with Banco do Brasil.
In Spain, whose insurance division provides a third of the company's total premiums, through June recorded a drop of almost 6%. Hence continue its overseas expansion by buying the June 30, 35% it did not its subsidiary Central to World Group or the agreement in May with Euler Hermes for joint development, 50% of the insurance business credit in Spain and four Latin American countries.
Catalana de Occidente, meanwhile, declined in the first half profit by 14.5%, its raw, 1%, and revenues, up 0.6%. The insurer attributed the drop in results that has continued prudence in risk taking and lower sales of insured in Spain, but in the business that comes from outside the domestic market, premiums have grown in the first half-year 1.3%.
This group, which is also committed to diversification, was made in June with the Spanish subsidiary of the French Groupama by 404.50 million. With this purchase will reach 3,000 million premium income in Spain and will occupy the fifth largest insurers in terms of turnover in this market.
Future projects in the midst of the crisis, but also headaches. Mapfre, as the industry in general has traditionally opted for risk-free investments, and these have been mostly, and until the current crisis has cast doubt on the emissions of the peripheral countries of the Eurozone sovereign bonds. The insurer, which has been forced to make some provisions for these new risks (especially for investments in Greece) and has penalized the stock price, waiting as rain in May that should be extended and to normalize the debt market But while reiterates its commitment to the Spanish debt. As Tejera said on occasion, if institutional investors do not buy Mapfre Spanish and Spanish debt, then who will?
There is also concern among insurers for the costs of adapting to Solvency II, its content (not agree the European Commission, the European Parliament and the States) and the actual date of its entry into force. Solvency II, according to ICEA (Cooperative Research between Underwriters and Pension Funds), will affect the cost structure of the entities, increasing fixed, will increase volatility in profits on equity, and will affect the leverage and savings companies.
保険会社が合うヒット
MAPFREとポルタカタラナは危機と規制当局を生き残るために多様化
カルロス·ゴメス30 SEP 2012 - 1時48 CET
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