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Awards for achievers.
The reinsurance market may be in varying degrees of turmoil (see above) but there are still many goo...
Europe's currency to boost new business.
The introduction of the euro last month will precipitate a change in the balance of international fi...
Forewarned is forearmed.
If reinsurers are to reduce the impact of future catastrophes they must improve their understanding of them, says Alex Beatty.
Correction.
Page 5 of the December 1998 issue of Reinsurance carried a story about potential losses facing Capit...
Swiss Re buys bank.
Swiss Re has bought investment bank Fox-Pitt, Kelton for an undisclosed sum. The London-based bank w...
Exel looking to grow.
A successful year for Bermudian (re)insurance group Exel has left it hungry for acquisitions, accord...
Swissair crash takes air losses to $1.8bn.
The most expensive aviation loss in history pushed total losses for 1998 up to $1.8bn and made last ...
Munich Re rings in New Year changes.
Munich Re has changed its business year to begin on 1 January. Despite the short 1998 business yea...
India's insurance bill delayed again.
India's long-awaited Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill (Re, January 1999, p21) has been delayed ye...
Gustafson to St Paul.
James Gustafson has been made president, chief operating officer and member of the board of the St P...
Kemper Re renamed.
US broker market reinsurer Kemper Re is to be renamed GE Capital Re. The change follows the compa...
CLM enters the ART world.
One of the new breed of Lloyd's integrated vehicles, CLM Insurance Fund, is to invest in insurance-l...
Stockton Re's net income rises to $78m.
Bermudian finite risk reinsurer Stockton Re saw net income rise to $78m in the quarter ending 30 Sep...
Testing time in genetics.
Adrian Leonard finds his way through the moral maze created by the idea of insurers accessing genetic information.
State and private side by side.
Keith Sankey looks back over the chequered history of private medical insurance in the UK.
The impact of Yasuda.
John Butler considers how the Court of Appeal's ruling on aggregate extension clauses might affect liability policies.
Demographics create a case for private provision.
Life and health business in developed markets continues to grow rapidly among the ageing populations of the world's leading markets.
Confusion arises out of diversity.
A mistake over jurisdictions led to a waste of 16 years and millions of dollars.
Third quarter cat losses hit US insurers.
The third worst catastrophe losses ever recorded in the third quarter of a year have hammered the re...
Riders on the storm.
Larissa Knepper analyses the effects on Europe's life insurers of the recent problems in the world's capital markets.
Life goes to Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has completed its $1.8bn acquisition of US-based Life Re (Re Sept. 1998, p5), making it the...
Scor opens in Russia.
French reinsurer Scor has opened an office in Russia to strengthen its operations in Russia and cent...
Mutre seeks out French health market.
A new joint-stock professional reinsurer has been quietly formed in France over the past few months ...
Billion dollar drain.
Alex Beatty finds out how insurers and reinsurers are tackling the Sproblem of fraud.