Fast Market Research recommends "Greece Insurance Report Q1 2014" from Business Monitor International, now available

Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 01/09/2014 --The news flow and data from Greece's insurance sector highlights three key themes. First, the economic crisis has finally had a (brutal) impact on the non-life segment. Second, premiums in the life segment have held up remarkably well until the end of 2012. Third, the consolidation of Greece's banking sector is something of a wildcard, and may bring around a consolidation among insurance companies as well.

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As of late 2013, it is clear that conditions remain grim for many of the players in Greece's embattled insurance sector. An earlier boom in sales of investment-linked products reversed during H113, with a result that revenues plunged by 49% to just EUR106mn. Premiums from traditional life policies dropped by 7%. It is no longer correct to describe the segment as resilient.

In the non-life segment, price discounting in the competitive markets for auto-related lines is the key issue. Premiums for both CASCO and CTMPL fell sharply in H113 relative to H112. However, a number of other non-life lines - such as covers for fire and other natural perils - actually rose.

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A new wildcard emerged in Q412 and remains relevant: this the movement by Greece's troubled banking sector towards a wholesale consolidation. The takeover bid by National Bank of Greece for Eurobank is a classic example of this. It remains to be seen what will be the final implications for the insurance companies that both parties own. A consolidation of the insurance sector would probably be good news, in that it would provide greater economies of scale and, for some players at least, more pricing power.

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