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XL Capital invests in OneCapital
Bermudian (re)insurer XL Capital has bought a minority stake in OneCapital Management Partners, a New...
US P&C makes first annual loss
The US property and casualty (P&C) sector in 2001 suffered its first ever full-year loss — $7.9bn, ac...
Lack of terrorism cover causes crisis in confidence
Corporate confidence in the US insurance industry has fallen in the wake of the 11 September attacks,...
Scor sells Fulcrum Insurance
French reinsurer Scor is to sell its US surplus lines company Fulcrum Insurance and put the resulting...
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Munich Re expects to get first China licence
Munich Re said that it would be the first foreign company to be issued with a reinsurance licence to ...
Medical brokers have voted Standard Life Healthcare as winner ...
Medical brokers have voted Standard Life Healthcare as winner of their 2002 insurer performance surv...
What the papers said this week.
METRO For £1500 a day, a California treatment centre is offering film companies the ultimate insu...
Trust to offer basic freelancer cover.
The provision of an insurance scheme to provide basic cover for all freelance journalists is being i...
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Credit Suisse
Dutch insurer Aegon is closing down its operations ...
Dutch insurer Aegon is closing down its operations in the Philippines after losing its sole marketin...
Lloyd's facing struggle as ALM laments losses.
Lloyd's faces a desperate struggle to raise more funds this week, after it emerged its losses for th...
Banding together.
To reap the rewards of customer relationship management it is vital for businesses to place the emphasis on teamwork between departments. Bob Bevan explains how to take a more elastic approach to future initiatives.
On the straight and narrow?
Ian McNeil encourages risk managers to widen their scope of reference when risk profiling by being aware that a company's ethics and values can also be a key area of risk.
Appointment at Ace.
Evan Greenberg, who was appointed vice-chairman of the Bermudian insurer Ace last November with resp...
Goals galore in PM football competition.
Post Magazine's fifth charity football competition, sponsored by Impact Plus, kicked off last week, ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny's pride in her own fairer sex continues to soar with news of yet another lady set to pound the...
Legal & General has registered ...
Legal & General has registered the 10,000th independent financial adviser to its IFA extranet centre...
Building a better broker body.
As the AIIB and BIBA move closer to full integration, Mike Williams, chief executive of BIBA, talks to Edward Murray about his aims to make the new body truly representative of the broking industry, and to ensure the merger is a smooth transition for all…
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Barclays
Software provider Brokersoft ...
Software provider Brokersoft is waiting to see if a rescue deal can be put together to keep the comp...
CBI: insurers less optimistic.
Optimism in the financial services sector has improved more than at any time for the last two years....
View from the Top - Roger Lyons
Roger Lyons, joint general secretary, Amicus. Sadly, after an era of improvements in company pensi...
Covered for play.
The organisers of this year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester have escaped price hikes for insuranc...