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Sutcliffe to head up Old Mutual life business
Jim Sutcliffe, previously deputy chairman of Liberty International, and previously chief executive UK...
CGU in Royal Bank of Scotland venture
CGU is expected to take a £150m joint stake in Royal Bank of Scotland's life subsidiary, which market...
Axa forms Japanese joint-venture
Axa is to take control of Japanese life insurance firm Nippon Dantai and invest up to 1.9bn euros int...
Norwich Union makes Dublin investment
Norwich Union is to establish up a Dublin-based company to market single-premium investment products ...
Bennetts buys up Sheppeard
Bennetts Insurance, the independent motor and household intermediary has acquired David Sheppeard Ins...
CGU ties up £125m outsourcing deal
CGU has signed a seven-year, £125m contract with IBM Global Services, which will see IBM run its data...
BRIT's share buy.
BRIT Insurance Holdings has bought from broker Benfield Greig the remaining 70.01% share of BRIT Ins...
Smart moves to change IT culture.
"When change meets culture, culture normally wins," Mike Smart, sales and marketing director of PMSC...
Swiss Re launch.
Swiss Re has launched 'Electronic Risk Exchange', an Internet-based service that trades reinsurance ...
Appointment at Wesleyan Assurance Society.
Mutual assurance society Wesleyan has recruited James Macdonald to become its managing director. Pre...
Signing on the dot.com line.
The government's decision to simplify the e-commerce Bill and speed up its passage through Parliamen...
Mergers not a quick-fix remedy.
The failure of so many mergers to deliver additional shareholder value was one of the most significa...
Penny Black's insurance week.
An IFA was embroiled in another cash scandal, Penny can reveal. Stand up Signor Ciollina - the ref...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Mike Logue has been made marine surveyor/adjuster by PCS. Mr Logue, who joins from Cigna where he wa...
Appointment at Towergate Underwriting.
Peter Saunders has joined Towergate Underwriting from Lloyd's broker EJ Weltons to become developmen...
Movers and shakers.
Andrew Mitchell analyses the 1998 Treasury returns for UK general insurance companies and uses figures from 1992 and 1997 to pick out the trends that have developed during the past decade.
Oil limit to spread.
The limit of oil pollution cover offered by the International Group of P&I Clubs will increase next ...
Five-a-side football.
Partner Clare Edwards almost achieved an historic victory in her role as Manchester law firm Elliott...
Learn today, win tomorrow.
The UK general insurance market has never been in such turmoil. Against a background of continuing...
007% for bond.
Nationwide has launched a two-year members' fixed rate bond, exclusively available to holders of mat...
IT service guide.
IT Direct, the IT procurement service for Lloyd's and the London market, has produced a new Services...
Appointment at American Express.
Jonathan Walsh has been made vice president of international insurance services for American Express...
Appointment at Ocaso Insurance.
Spanish insurance company Ocaso has appointed David Brierley as business producer at its UK branch i...