Reinsurance
Blanch buys retro.
Broker E.W. Blanch has acquired specialist retrocessional reinsurance broker Dunn & Carter. The oper...
Here we go again.
There has been a fairly steady stream of takeovers, buyouts and alliances in the insurance and reins...
Rating roulette with high stakes.
When the world's leading players in the reinsurance market sit down around the cafe tables of Monte ...
Re-Structuring, -fining, -grouping ...
... all key topics at the annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, which some 2000 reinsurance delegates will attend next week. Janina Clark looks at what might be on the agenda.
CMG in £1.5m deal with Aon.
Aon has revealed the fully updated details of a £1.5m, three year support and maintenance contract a...
Mad about M&A.
Technology giant IBM has conducted a survey of European insurance executives which found 54% of them...
Taking a gamble.
Reinsurers are heading into the unknown in Monte Carlo this year, says Janina Clark.
General Re deal finds favour.
The shock $22bn acquisition of General Re by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathawa...
Benfield & Rea Investment Trust.
Lloyd's corporate investor Benfield & Rea Investment Trust (Brit) is seeking to become an insurance ...
Ace buys more Lloyd's capacity.
Acquisitive Bermudian insurer Ace has bought all the ordinary share capital of Limit (No.9) Ltd, a c...
New Lloyd's agency.
Omega Underwriting Agents, a new Lloyd's managing agency, has been formed to manage syndicate 958, w...
New IIL officers.
The Insurance Institute of London has elected Dieter Losse, deputy chairman of reinsurance broker Be...
A tale of three cities.
Adrian Leonard talks to Graham Dimmock of PartnerRe and SAFR about life in a global market.
Swiss Re's £6m deal.
Swiss Re New Markets has compled a new reinsurance transaction that provides £6m of risk protection ...
AIG muscles in on pensions with $18bn takeover.
The largest US Property and causality insurer AIG has entered the pensions market with the $18bn (£1...
Feeling hot, hot, hot we were not, not not.
Weather statistics released for July.
Hannover profits swell.
Record results last year saw Hannover Re's net profit climb 13.4% to just over £34m. The Group's gro...
Adam Richardson finished second.
Post Magazine-sponsored Porsche Carrera driver Adam Richardson stormed to a second position finish i...
Atrium merger agreed.
Atrium Cockell Group which manages two syndicates at Lloyd's (570 and 609) with a combined stamp cap...
Swiss Re tops life reinsurers after £1bn acquisition.
Swiss Re has splashed out over £1bn in order to buy the Life Re Corporation of Stamford, USA, to con...
Appointment at Venton Underwriting.
James Winn has been appointed deputy underwriter of Lloyd's non-marine syndicate 376, which is manag...
... but King acquitted.
Boxing promoter Don King has been acquitted on charges of attempting to defraud a Lloyd's syndicate ...
Falling off the dock of the bay.
New Orleans dock workers are the most accident prone in the United States. That is one one of the...
Three-month deadline set for global trading system.
The steering committee which has been set up to find a way to create a global insurance electronic t...