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Vive la difference!
Global market? What global market? Regional differences appear to be alive, well and refusing to dis...
XL Mid Ocean swaps cat.
XL Mid Ocean Re, the reinsurance operation of merged Bermudian insurers Exel and Mid Ocean, has carr...
Acquisitive is positive.
Janina Clark talks to Michael O'Halleran about the rise and rise of Aon Group.
Axa's 'captive' retains risk.
For the first time in the four years of the company's existence, Axa Cessions has retained some of t...
France's non-life nightmare.
As the French property and casualty industry continues its major restructuring, Moody's Martin Mills sees problems ahead for the industry.
Transatlantic gains.
New York-based Transatlantic Holdings, parent of Transatlantic Re and Putnam Re, increased net incom...
Appointment at Swiss Re.
Professor Hans Buhlmann, a member of the board of directors at Swiss Re, has been elected to the Ins...
London Club stable.
The London P&I (protection and indemnity) Club has reported strong results for 1997/98, with assets ...
The euro: legal tender?
Insurers must be clear about the legal implications of the introduction of the European single currency. James Ashe-Taylor & Alan Davis report.
Arig Re formed.
Arab Insurance Group (Arig) has formed a reinsurance company, Arig Re, to take over the group's non-...
Merger creates Lloyd's giant.
Lloyd's managing agency Murray Lawrence has merged with corporate capital provider Angerstein to for...
GIO losses force restructure.
Australian insurer GIO made a pre-tax loss of A$189m ($112m) on its reinsurance business in 1997/98,...
Pressure mounts over Holocaust claims.
Swiss insurer Zurich has agreed to resolve outstanding claims arising from insurance policies bought...
Dreams turned to dust.
Civil unrest and economic setbacks have interrupted the insurance industry's love affair with Indonesia. Jeremy Golden reports.
Why are we rating?
Assessing the security of (re)insurers is big business these days, and it looks set to grow. Alex Beatty reports.
Correction.
In the table accompanying Kit Brownlees' article on political risk last month (Re, August 1998, p13)...
Trading in turmoil.
With this year's hurricane season well underway, Robert C.B. Miller assesses the catastrophe options market.
SCT sells stakes.
Lloyd's corporate investor Syndicate Capital Trust has sold 2.8 million shares in Kiln Capital and 3...
Appointment at St Paul Re.
Lizbeth Zorbas has become principal officer and general manager of the Singapore office of St Paul R...
Appointment at Exel.
Sir Brian Corby, Robert Glauber and Paul Jeanbart, all directors of Mid Ocean, will join the board o...
Appointment at WIN.
David Holbrook of J&H Marsh & McLennan has become the new chairman of the World Insurance Network. H...
Jersey designated.
The UK government is to allow insurers in Jersey to promote and sell their long-term products in the...
IPC Holdings hit by cat losses.
A return to a more normal level of catastrophe losses meant net income for the second quarter of 199...
Irish tax restructure.
Moves to make the corporation tax rate the same for companies in Dublin's International Financial Se...