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Appointment at DJ Freemans.
James Pilgrim-Morris and Mark Everiss have both been made partners in the insurance and reinsurance ...
KWELM progress.
Creditors of the insolvent KWELM group of insurance companies are to receive a fifth payment through...
First quarter pre-tax profit fall.
The first quarter of 1998 saw pre-tax profit at UK broking group Sedgwick fall to £38.3m ($62.7m) fr...
Terra Nova up in Q1.
Bermudian insurance and reinsurance group Terra Nova boosted its first quarter 1998 operating income...
RAA officers.
The Reinsurance Association of America has elected James Gustafson, chairman and chief executive of ...
An alternative viewpoint.
Cologne Re's Milan Vukelic tells Alex Beatty why he is unimpressed with the market's craze for securitisation.
Paris Partner.
Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe has transferred executive vice-president Graham Dimmock to Paris. Mr D...
Denning retires.
David Denning retired as chairman of Copenhagen Re (UK) last month. Mr Denning, 65, spent 24 years a...
Year 2000 - Rumbles of thunder.
The computer problems caused by the year 2000 may not have been the central topic of any of the sess...
Feeling the heat at Rims.
This year's Rims conference saw the largest ever international delegation, but dissatisfaction from risk managers. Janina Clark reports.
Profit up 45% at Swiss Re.
The acquisitions of Mercantile & General Re and Unione Italiana di Riassicurazione pushed Swiss Re's...
Poland non-life cessions up.
Rising loss ratios and capital shortages have forced Polish non-life insurers to make even greater u...
Willis in Russia.
UK broker Willis Corroon is arranging the insurance for a $2bn construction project in Russia. The p...
Manulife creates German subsidiary.
Manulife Financial, Canada's largest mutual life insurer, has opened an independent reinsurance subs...
Going for gold.
Toni Stowe examines the reinsurance of the growing high net worth market.
The US goes captive crazy.
The number of US onshore captive domiciles may be soaring, but few of them are justifying their existence. Corinne Ramming reports.
General Re record despite soft market.
Operating income at US reinsurance giant General Re rose by nearly 10% to a record $250m in the firs...
Equitas correction.
Last month's Technical Report (Re, May 1998, p23) said that Equitas chairman David Newbigging had al...
A domicile on Lime Street.
As Lloyd's searches for new business in a competitive market, Alastair Rodger outlines the case for allowing captives into the society.
French growth.
French reinsurers increased their net post-tax profits by 38% to Fr 3.3bn in 1997 on gross premium i...
Ship losses falling, says ILU.
Latest statistics from the Institute of London Underwriters (ILU) show that the fall in merchant shi...
Do what you do best.
As Reinsurance went to press, the US House of Representatives had just passed, by the narrowest of m...
Reanalysis - Catastrophes - Insured catastrophe losses halved.
Last year saw insured losses from catastrophes fall by 50%, according to Swiss Re's latest sigma rep...
The London Processing Centre.
The London Processing Centre, which processes premiums and claims for the London market, saw its inc...