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Sherwood attacks north american market
Software and solutions provider Sherwood International has acquired Canadian-based Concise Technologi...
Friends Provident to demutualise in July
Mutual life insurer Friends Provident plans to demutualise and float on the London Stock Exchange in ...
Aon goes pan-European with accident management
Aon Motor Accident Management is to set up a pan-Eurpean standardised service to help companies' redu...
Governmnent warned off interfering
The government must tread carefully before intervening in the design of financial products, the Assoc...
Delegates take centre stage.
When Adrian Leonard attended the second biennial Dublin insurance conference in March, he found that it was the delegates themselves that provided the most informative feedback.
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Karen Clark, president and chief executive of Applied Insurance Research (AIR), has been named Woman ...
Direct benefit for Munich Re.
Munich Re has claimed that the proposed complex restructuring of German financial firms, in which Eu...
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Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are taking stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
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Creditors of New Cap Re Bermuda have until 31 May to lodge claims with liquidator Ernst & Young. The...
Catlin heads Lloyd's group.
Stephen Catlin has been re-elected as chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA), which will t...
Island hopping.
Managing director Atsushi Gamo sets out a convincing argument for moving all Sumitomo's non-Japanese and non-US reinsurance business to Dublin. Adrian Leonard reports.
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Conoco's Killingholme oil refinery in the UK, which was damaged by fire on 16 April, was insured thro...
Scor will decide on Sorema soon.
Scor has said it expects to decide by the middle of this month whether to buy fellow French reinsur...
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Egypt is studying recommendations by Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan/Fleming-CIIC for the sale of its f...
Reanalysis - Petrobras - Sinking lifts offshore risk.
The sinking of the world's largest semi-submersible oil platform will have a dramatic effect on the ...
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Michael Watson takes over from Pierre Croizat this month as chairman and chief executive of Trenwick...
The best of both worlds.
Swiss Re's innovative combination of two years of reinsurance cover with an index-based securitisation makes both the California Earthquake Authority and investors happy, says Markus Schmutz.
Partial support for INdeR deal.
Many Argentinian insurers owed money by the state-owned reinsurer Instituto Nacional de Reaseguros (...
Avoiding the courts.
With demand for non-traditional reinsurance solutions increasing, Richard Spiller identifies the legal and regulatory issues to watch out for.
Righting wrong weather.
Dr Alan Punter says that, increasingly, corporations are turning to the capital markets to secure co...
Lloyd's goes for rethink.
Lloyd's has set up a group of senior market figures to review its future strategy. Headed by Lloyd's...
The art of the city.
Over the past decade, Dublin has proved to be the ideal base for several leading non-traditional (re)insurers. Adrian Leonard listens to some of the top players describe its charms.
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Employers Re has bought CyberComp from Reliance Insurance for an undisclosed sum. CyberComp will quo...
Rocket science is difficult.
For most (re)insurers space is less the last frontier than a hole where profits should be. Vic Wyman goes boldly in search of the future for space cover.