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EW Blanch net income leaps 25%.
Reinsurance broker EW Blanch saw its net income jump by a quarter last year to $39.7m from $31.8m in...
Bavarians in Oslo.
Bavarian Re is to open an office in Oslo later this year. It will focus on alternative risk transfer...
Reanalysis - Lloyd's - Lime Street's new look for a new era.
Efforts to make Lloyd's more attractive to its brokers and clients and to strengthen the Lloyd's franchise are the focus of the Lloyd's Market Board (LMB) for the next 3 years, according to a strategy document published last month,writes Janina Clark
Muted celebrations.
Janina Clark and Cameron Andrews find Singapore's reinsurers starting their new year with both new challenges and old problems.
Bermuda at Lloyd's.
Four Bermudian lawyers have set up a firm specialising in (re)insurance litigation and arbitration w...
Lloyd's Asia finally ready to open in Singapore.
Lloyd's is close to receiving approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for the creati...
Gateway to Europe.
US and now European companies are using an Irish captive as their entry into European or global insurance. Adrian Leonard reports.
Careless talk costs money.
William Perry and Samantha Miller explain how to prevent privileged communications between cedant and reinsurer ending up in the wrong hands.
Rags to riches.
Once one of the poorest capitals in Europe, Dublin is now booming. More and more reinsurers are opening offices and the infrastructure is creaking under the strain. Adrian Leonard reports.
Gerling expands.
Gerling Global Re America is to write property facultative business from its US offices. Robert Gidd...
Daniel joins Tempest.
Wayne Daniel is to lead Tempest Re's multiline expansion into Europe and Asia. Monoline Bermudian pr...
Under pressure.
Despite several years of poor or negative results, aviation (re)insurers are once more struggling to turn the market, says Hans Sandstrom.
Transatlantic Poles US-based.
Transatlantic Re has opened an office in Warsaw. Transatlantic Polska, based at the Warsaw Financial...
Japanese P&C profit warning.
Liberalisation in the Japanese property and casualty (P&C) market has put the long-term profitabilit...
German life in Asia.
Hannover Re is to write life and health business in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The German reinsurer has...
Insurance for the dot.com generation.
The keys to successful e-commerce are uninterrupted access and customer and investor confidence. In a series of four articles, Alan Fisher and Belinda Saddington explore the opportunities those needs offer insurers.
Atzenweiler for CNA.
Henry Atzenweiler is to head US reinsurer CNA Re's continental European operations - both facultativ...
Renewals stay flat.
If the reinsurance market is returning to health, it is doing so at a snail's pace - at least in ter...
New Lloyd's deputy.
The managing director of the PXRe managing agency, Paul Archard (pictured), has been elected deputy ...
Scor singled out as acquisition target.
Leading French reinsurer Scor has been named as one of three European insurance company stocks most ...
Canadian compromise.
The Montreal Convention on airline liability was agreed last May and could be ratified later this year. Catherine West and Peter Macara offer a handy reference guide to its provisions.
Zurich in Puerto Rico.
Zurich Re has been granted a licence to write all lines of facultative and treaty reinsurance in Pue...
In search of excellence.
Are you responsible for the reinsurance initiative of the year? Could your company be the internat...
COO for Odyssey Re.
Roland Jackson has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer of Odyssey Re Group. He ...