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Stockton buys for ART's sake.
Bermudian finite risk reinsurer Stockton Re is looking to develop alternative risk transfer opportun...
Jack Miller dies at 87.
Regular Reinsurance correspondent John (Jack) Miller has died of a heart attack at the age of 87. ...
New B.C. Dyer agency.
Ken Barrett, formerly chief underwriter of Zurich Re London, is starting up a new subsidiary of B.C....
HCC launches bids.
US insurer HCC has launched a $154m bid for California-based (re)insurer Centris. HCC has also acqui...
Moving with the times.
Swiss Re America's Heidi Hutter tells Janina Clark how she sees the US market of the future.
Chaucer hit by poor investments.
A plunge in the value of its investments caused Chaucer Holdings, one of the new breed of integrated...
Japanese cessions reverse trend.
After two years of decline, outward reinsurance cessions by Japan's insurers increased by 10% to Y25...
China rings in the changes.
The PICC's Chao Yang updates Adrian Leonard on the market's liberalisation and regulation.
Nordic firms raise doubts at Moody's.
Rating agency Moody's has given good insurance financial strength ratings to two Scandinavian reinsu...
P&I cat costs fall again.
For the fifth year in succession, the world's shipowners are to benefit from a significant reduction...
Moody's downgrades three Lloyd's syndicates.
Rating agency Moody's has downgraded three Lloyd's syndicates in its latest quarterly review of synd...
Don't give up the day job.
Now that, for many of us, the festivities are over, it is back to the realities of the market. La...
SBJ goes private after MBO.
The management of London market broker Steel Burrill Jones is to take the company private in a manag...
Lloyd's broker banned.
Michael Radford, a former director of Hogg Insurance Brokers, has been banned from the Lloyd's marke...
FSA consults on future Lloyd's regulation.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK's new super-regulator, will make policyholder protect...
New NMA chairman.
The Lloyd's Underwriters' Non-Marine Association has elected Bill Rendall as chairman for 1999, succ...
Ockham takes last spread fund.
The last of Lloyd's pure investment trusts is to disappear following the takeover of New London Capi...
Looking to the long term.
The UK's Royal Commission on long-term care will report later this month. Tracy Hall and Peter Barnett look at what it might say.
Reinsurers win Svenska case.
Around 70 reinsurers have finally won their long-running dispute with bankrupt Swedish credit insure...
Wren announces 86% jump in pre-tax profit.
Lloyd's insurer Wren has announced an 86% jump in pre-tax profit to £3.2m ($5.3m) in the six months ...
A higher profile needed.
Congratulations are in order for Swiss Re, which was the only financial services company in the top ...
A feeling of deja vu?
Last year Reinsurance carried a review with a view to the future. This year Janina Clark looks back to see whether its predictions were correct.
A finger on the pulse.
Fraudulent claims are an ever present threat for life companies. Keith Sankey looks at efforts to stay ahead of the game.
Archard to PXRE.
US reinsurer PXRE has appointed Paul Archard as managing director of the group's Lloyd's agent, PXRE...