Regulation
The FSA publishes consultation paper.
The Financial Services Authority has published a consultation paper setting out how the European Unio...
Appointment at Winchester White.
Winchester White, the financial services management consultancy specialising in insurance and invest...
Appointment at Stamford Associates.
Stamford Associates has recruited Nick Davies as fixed income specialist. He joins from Aon Consulti...
Belfast-based brokers set to be charged.
Investigations into Belfast-based Northern Ireland Insurance Brokers, which has been implicated as p...
GISC in dark on training.
Guidance on requisite levels of training for insurance intermediaries is unlikely to be forthcoming ...
Liberata scoops £50m Axa deal.
Third-party administrator Liberata has won a deal worth £50m over 10 years to administer non-core po...
NU chooses Aquila system.
Norwich Union is to use Aquila's Administrator pension system for its defined benefit portfolio from...
Airline terror cover stays up in the air
Uncertainty surrounded the future of aviation (re)insurance as Reinsurance went to press, with many t...
Aviation schemes get ready for take-off
The US mutual scheme Equitime could begin writing war and terrorism cover for US airlines by the midd...
Prudential posts drop in half-year operating profits.
Prudential has posted a 15% drop in half-year operating profits, hit by falling equity markets and b...
Pool Re extension: an insurer's perspective
Colin Short gives an insurer's view of the deal struck last week on the extension of terrorism cover ...
Biased viewpoint on Woolf Reforms ignores equality objective.
I do not normally comment on letters to your publication or any other, but felt I needed to respond ...
All tied up in knots.
Independent financial advisers are facing major upheavals under proposed FSA moves to increase growth in the tied agent sector and reforms on commission payments. To survive, they must embrace change - even fundamentally restructure. Francis Higney…
Sony and Aegon talk about life.
Japanese electronics giant Sony is in talks with insurer Aegon that could lead to it selling half it...
Eureko records fall in consolidated net income.
Pan-European insurer Eureko has recorded a 4% fall in consolidated net income to EUR203.8m (£128.22m...
Pool Re extension: a broker's view
Steve Bessant gives a broker's view of the proposed chagnes to the cover provided by Pool Re. Pool ...
PWC say brokers may be excluded.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the provisional liquidator for Independent Insurance, this week said broker...
Ascot sails out of marine hull market.
Lloyd's insurer Ascot Underwriting has decided to pull out of the marine hull market, just weeks aft...
FSA acts over "engineering".
View FSA financial engineering document View FSA operational risk document View FSA CP97 feedb...
Gerling UK forfeits £6m over Bradford City FC venture.
The UK arm of German insurer Gerling will today be asked to write off over £6m it lent first divisio...
Incisive offers new courses.
Incisive Training - Post Magazine's joint venture training arm - is rolling out a series of courses ...
Jardine Lloyd Thompson reappoints chairman.
Broking giant Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed John Hastings-Bass as chairman and Dominic Burke ...
Light the blue touchpaper.
The House of Lord's decision on Callery v Gray - damp squib or much-needed firecracker for the claimant costs industry? Tim Wallis and Jason Rowley reflect on the subtleties of a judgement that has had an explosive reception.
Ski run teacher not negligent.
Chittock v Woodbridge School (Court of Appeal - 26 June 2002).