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Chartside hits acquisition trail
An ambitious acquisition programme by management company Chartside Ventures was kicked off this week ...
GE makes push for over 50s
GE Insurance Holdings, the insurance operation of GE Financial Assurance, has launched a new company...
McCracken & Rutter launch into London market
A new company is set to launch into the London market, it was confirmed today. The £50m Underwriter...
Analysts predict business wipeout.
The threatened deregulation of the US commercial market could wipe out surplus lines writers in Lond...
Appointment at QBE International Insurance.
Marion Brown has joined QBE International to head the company's new alternative risk transfer (ART) ...
Standard Life Investment.
Standard Life Investment made sure its operations were built on firm foundations when Financial Serv...
Appointment at Aon.
Eric Warner has been appointed chief financial officer and board director of Aon Group, the reinsura...
Blast from Brown.
The new president of the CII is Reg Brown, underwriter of Syndicate 702 at Lloyd's and a director of...
Blunkett backing.
Deborah Arnott, head of consumer education at the Financial Services Authority, told a workshop sess...
Support for charge.
Travel insurance specialist Inter Group has welcomed controversial plans to charge brokers £500 for ...
Award winners.
Peter Knight (below), CII vice-president, received the Bridgewater Award for Exceptional Service for...
Industry can prove itself in Paddington aftermath.
When there is human tragedy on the scale of the Paddington rail crash, the insurance industry is nev...
Get staff on fast-track blocks.
Last week's Chartered Insurance Institute conference in Harrogate saw the major, merger-obsessed ins...
Commentary - Nothing but the truth.
The Civil Procedure Rules have been amended to allow insurers to sign statements of truth and disclo...
Techno luddites will face closure.forgood.
Paul Spencer, UK chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance, warned the industry to prepare itself for ...
Total profit alert.
The chairman of financial services software supplier Total Systems has issued a profit warning for t...
Allianz looking to buy its way into US.
German insurer Allianz is in talks with one of America's largest bond fund managers as it attempts t...
It's criminal.
A survey by windscreen repair and replacer Autoglass found that outside of the M25, more vehicles ar...
Promotion of moderate alcohol comsumption.
In October 1924 Post Magazine reported on the latest research to support the promotion of moderate a...
FMW director.
FMW director Dominic MacMahon (right) showed he has yet to get to grips with the game of golf when h...
Ellen to float.
Motor specialist Ellen Group has announced plans to float the company on OFEX, the London off-exchan...
Greenwich acquires Chartwell syndicates
Lloyd's managing agency Greenwich Insurance Holdings has acquired troubled non-marine syndicates 947 ...
Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commission.
China is set to open more cities to foreign insurers as part of a campaign to clean up the nation's ...
Whipping up a storm.
The face of the reinsurance market is changing, and those companies that fail to adapt to new developments may not survive. Adrian Leonard reports.