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Appointment at Gerling Global Re.
Gerling Global Re of America has made three appointments to its property underwriting team. Robert G...
Appointment at Capital Re.
Bruce Reich (above) has joined US reinsurer Capital Re as executive vice-president and chief underwr...
A health-giving tonic for Asia.
Jeremy Golden asks whether health insurance will give Asia-Pacific's insurance markets the boost they need.
Miller in Madrid.
The Miller Insurance Group has created a joint venture with Madrid-based reinsurance broker J.P. Bru...
Winds of change blow gently.
Rates, rates and rates were the key topics of last month's reinsurance Rendez-Vous, but an upturn in the market is far from certain. Janina Clark reports from Monte Carlo.
Benfield Greig heads north.
Benfield Greig has announced the launch of Benfield Greig Canada, having, until recently, seen littl...
Watch for warnings.
Market trends become magnified in the reinsurance world. This was a truth brought home sharply at l...
Disasters waiting to happen.
Insufficient catastrophe reinsurance cover is being bought in many markets, despite overcapacity. Ulrich Schweizer and Maria-Elisabeth Fischer summarise the findings of Swiss Re's latest Catastrophe Market Research Project (CAMARES).
New bill for bankruptcy.
Lisa Dorr examines the implications for non-US (re)insurers of proposed amendments to the US Bankruptcy Code.
CLASS tested at Lloyd's.
In a further attempt by the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA) and Lloyd's to ha...
Shift to excess of loss will halve reinsurance.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
Web weather.
In an alliance with WeatherData, broker and risk management provider E.W. Blanch is to launch a web-...
Appointment at International Insurance Society.
International Insurance Society, a New York-based non-profit educational organisation of executives,...
Brazilian hold-up.
Following the opening of Zurich Re's new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the firm now has to wait for n...
Appointment at Thomas Miller.
The new hull insurance syndicate formed by mutual insurance management company Thomas Miller and rei...
Eastern IT.
Lloyd's consortium Central & Eastern European Reinsurance Services (CERES) has established a joint v...
XL time switch.
Bermudian (re)insurance group XL Capital is to change its financial year to run to the end of the ca...
Capital Re dividend.
Shareholders of Capital Re received a quarterly dividend of 4 cents a share at the end of September....
Eastern promise.
Privatisation and deregulation will heighten competition in the Middle East's markets over the next five years, says David Fanning.
Appointment at Wellington Underwriting.
Wellington Underwriting has appointed Mark Cravens as vice-president, risk management, responsible f...
Europe's Goliaths under siege.
The liberalisation of the German market - the birthplace of many world-class reinsurers - has stripped it of its comfort zone. Adrian Leonard reports.
Safer earthquake-proof buildings.
New research by engineers from the University of Cambridge could lead to the construction of safer, ...
Erratum: Standard & Poor's.
Five companies were omitted from Standard & Poor's ranking of 1998's top 125 companies in the August...
Gloom predicted as underwriters rush in.
Lloyd's open years of account are due to deliver swelling losses, ratings agencies and analysts are ...