News
Swiss Re to buy in Dallas.
Swiss Re is to pay $260m in cash for two Dallas-based insurers, Southwestern Life Insurance and Secu...
Critical mass.
In the space of two decades, critical illness products have become available worldwide. Chris Fennell looks at their growth.
New staff at OPL.
Mary Hennessy has joined Overseas Partners as chief operating officer and president. She has 23 year...
Axa Re writes PI.
Axa Re UK has moved into the professional indemnity (PI) market. Its PI, financial risks and directo...
World insurance - Fewer premiums, higher prices.
Three new reports show that the global insurance market is entering the new century with a mixture o...
Making it a happy new year.
French storm losses aside, the reinsurance industry has had a positive start to the new year, with r...
Wordings on the web.
The London market's electronic library of wordings, clauses and policy forms, the Market Wordings Da...
A year of the euro.
Despite concerns about the euro's lack of strength against the dollar, in the year since its introdu...
Nac Re upgrade.
Following XL Capital's acquisition of Nac Re in June 1999, rating agency Standard & Poor's has raise...
Guyot resigns.
Philippe Guyot has resigned his position as president and director of Sirius Belgium Reassurances (f...
High-speed change.
Jeremy Golden reports on fast-changing fortunes in Japan, the world's largest life market.
Downward spiral.
Adrian Leonard investigates the effect of the unravelling of the reinsurance spiral behind the Unicover workers' compensation pool.
CCR asks government for cash boost.
The French state-owned reinsurance pool Caisse Centrale de Reassurance (CCR) has appealed to the gov...
Risk Capital Re sold to Folksamerica.
Folksamerica Re is to pay $20.3m for the reinsurance operations of Risk Capital Holdings. The ann...
Six brokers join RAA.
Following the Reinsurance Association of America's decision to admit reinsurance brokers, Aon Re Wor...
Don't bank on it.
Adrian Leonard reviews the effect of the much heralded overhaul of US financial services, and finds little likely to change.
GIC to expand abroad.
India's government-owned reinsurer, the General Insurance Corporation (GIC), intends to increase the...
Are you a winner?
An entry form for the British Insurance Awards is included in this issue of Reinsurance. To have you...
Reinsurer on a roll.
Hannover Re has now completed three securitisations of life and health reinsurance. Steffen Buetow and Regine Kielich explain the company's pioneering refinancing deals.
Dealing with the future.
Robert Miller argues that trading insurance and reinsurance as commodities would reduce the ill effects of the insurance cycle.
Markets to meet online at I-Wex.
Last month saw the launch of I-WeX.com, a new Internet-based weather derivatives exchange. Inform...
Aircraft losses down in 1999.
It was a good year for aircraft safety in 1999 with fatalities falling by more than half to 512 from...
Annuity appeal.
Michael Pado explains why growth in the US annuity market is good news for reinsurers.
Reinsurance index 1999.
A complete listing of all the news, features and reports in last year's issues of Reinsurance.