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An Ace division.
Bermuda-based (re)insurer Ace has set up a division to offer non-traditional insurance and finance-r...
Reinsurers' rankings are revealed.
Next month, a special issue of Reinsurance brings you exclusive rankings of 1999's top 100 reinsuran...
Strong winds of change.
Change is in the air at Lloyd's, creating optimism in the market. Cameron Andrews reports on the latest news from Lime Street.
Russian insurers disappear.
In 1998, 2334 insurers were listed in Russia's state register, but the number fell to 1532 by the be...
Search for CEO ends.
Bahrain-based Arig has appointed Udo Krueger (pictured), formerly chief executive of Allianz Re Asia...
Polygon's Ark.
Polygon, the Guernsey-based financial services group, has formed Ark Consulting, a risk management p...
A cool climate.
The Nordic markets are saturated, but rate increases following windstorm Orkan Anatol and a growing healthcare sector are keeping their (re)insurers busy. Cameron Andrews reports.
US posts poor P&C results.
The bleak situation among US property/casualty reinsurers has been demonstrated once again by new fi...
More KWELM cash.
The administrator of the scheme of arrangement for the insolvent KWELM group of insurance companies,...
Zurich rocks the boat.
The Zurich Group has reorganised its marine operations in the US, moving its headquarters from Atlan...
Wellington set to buy Limit.
Wellington looked set to acquire fellow Lloyd's insurer Limit as Reinsurance went to press. Extra...
CNA forms cat unit.
CNA Re has formed a global catastrophe unit to coordinate the underwriting and management of all its...
General & Cologne rebrand.
General Re has unveiled a single brand for its own reinsurance operations and those of its subsidiar...
Annuity acquisition.
Annuity & Life Re America has bought Capitol Bankers Life Insurance from Life Reassurance Corporatio...
Interest in annuities.
Most reinsurers have been avoiding annuity risks, but XL Mid Ocean recently reinsured annuity business for Century Life. Adrian Leonard finds out why it bucked the trend.
Hurricane season forecast revised.
Hurricane forecast guru Professor Bill Gray of Colorado State University has increased the number of...
Brown steps down.
Reg Brown, president of the Chartered Insurance Institute, is to step down as active underwriter of ...
New auction date set for IRB Brasil.
The much-delayed auction of Brazil's state-owned reinsurer, IRB Brasil Re, has been rescheduled for ...
Statistics, not lies.
Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography that there are three kinds of lies - "Lies, damned lies and st...
AIR unveils quake model.
Catastrophe modelling specialist Applied Insurance Research (AIR) has developed a new method of esti...
First steps towards e-initiation.
In the third of four e-commerce articles, Belinda Saddington and Alexandra Booth look at the initial hurdles faced by European insurers setting up on-line.
New head for Employers Re.
Ronald Pressman (pictured) has replaced David Calhoun as president and chief executive of Kansas-bas...
Axa Re sets merger date.
The proposed merger of Axa Re and Axa Global Solutions (Re, December 1999, p3) to form Axa Corporate...
Steps up in life.
As part of its strategy to expand its life business, Swiss Re has appointed John Coomber, a member o...