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Demographics create a case for private provision.
Life and health business in developed markets continues to grow rapidly among the ageing populations of the world's leading markets.
Confusion arises out of diversity.
A mistake over jurisdictions led to a waste of 16 years and millions of dollars.
Third quarter cat losses hit US insurers.
The third worst catastrophe losses ever recorded in the third quarter of a year have hammered the re...
Riders on the storm.
Larissa Knepper analyses the effects on Europe's life insurers of the recent problems in the world's capital markets.
Life goes to Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has completed its $1.8bn acquisition of US-based Life Re (Re Sept. 1998, p5), making it the...
Scor opens in Russia.
French reinsurer Scor has opened an office in Russia to strengthen its operations in Russia and cent...
Mutre seeks out French health market.
A new joint-stock professional reinsurer has been quietly formed in France over the past few months ...
Billion dollar drain.
Alex Beatty finds out how insurers and reinsurers are tackling the Sproblem of fraud.
ABI Y2K database.
The Association of British Insurers is to expand its database of year 2000 compliant companies to i...
The tide turns.
Eric Alexander sees signs of improvement in another tough year for marine underwriters.
British Insurance Awards.
Are you a reinsurer or reinsurance broker with a success story to tell? Then the British Insurance A...
Overseas Partners hit by disastrous third quarter investment result.
Losses of $122m on investments plunged Bermudian reinsurer Overseas Partners' net income into the re...
Reform opens a passage to India.
The ending of the Indian state monopoly in insurance opens up new possibilities, says Har Govind.
Names furious as EGM vote fails.
Lloyd's Names have failed in their attempt to block the increased representation of corporate capita...
Ace USA sets up specialist divisions.
Ace is continuing its rapid expansion in the US with the creation of an aviation division and a move...
Kasuya for Aon Japan.
Giant broker Aon has appointed Eiji Kasuya to head its operations in Japan. Mr Kasuya was previously...
Swiss Re in India.
Swiss Re has become the first reinsurer to establish a liaison office in India. The office, in Mumba...
Striking while the iron's hot.
Tim Carroll is wasting no time in setting an agenda for the International Underwriting Association of London. Janina Clark hears his plans.
Ace looks North.
Ace London, the Lloyd's arm of giant Bermudian (re)insurance group Ace, has recruited Tom Faerovik t...
Time to put the house in order.
Economic upheaval has uncovered serious flaws in South Korea's insurance industry, reports Jeremy Golden.
Reinsurers warned of more hurricanes.
Last year's dramatic Atlantic hurricane season looks set to be repeated this year, according to hurr...
New share valuations shock reinsurers.
A new method for valuing the shares of (re)insurers has produced radically different figures to curr...
New Davison division.
Lloyd's broker R.L. Davison is to form a reinsurance division to place motor, marine and non-marine ...
PwC made liquidator.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to liquidate the UK assets of French reinsurer Compagnie E...