Regulation
Transatlantic rating.
Transatlantic Re has received an 'Aa1' (excellent) financial strength rating from rating agency Mood...
London takes a bow.
It has been a long time since we carried as positive a piece about the London market as our report o...
Rhine Re joins International Underwriting Association.
Rhine Re, which plans to start underwriting in the London market in the latter part of this year (Re...
Is London heading for a boom?
Investors wishing to predict changes in the insurance cycle should pay close attention to the movements in capital markets, argues Robert C.B. Miller.
Zurich gets licence.
The Swiss Bank Commission has granted insurance giant Zurich's request to sell savings and investmen...
India lays down the law.
The success of privatisation will depend on regulation, argue Jonathan Bank, Ken Langan and Stewart Keir.
Penny Black's insurance week.
My thoughts go out to IBM's press man Phil Anderson following a harrowing experience with a small sp...
Share Watch.
Now that the dust has settled and orphan assets - life insurance assets whose ownership is unclear -...
MPs stall regulation.
An influential group of MPs has blocked further progress towards European-wide regulation of the dis...
Tackling change head-on.
The insurance industry is going through a massive period of change both in terms of the players in t...
Protection from emerging risks.
Europe's life insurers have been insulated to a degree from the problems in emerging market securiti...
Mixed fortunes for giant insurers.
Insurance analysts have mixed feelings about the short-term prospects for both Prudential and CGU, w...
FSA appoint new members of Ombudsman board.
The Financial Services Authority has announced appointments to the 12-man board to run the new 'one-...
UBS sheds 25% stake in Swiss Life.
Months of speculation about UBS's 25% stake in Swiss Life came to an abrupt end last week when the b...
Compensation rush could mean no costs.
A rush to speed up compensation to victims of the pensions mis-selling scandal could result in profe...
Global voice for intermediaries.
Insurance agents and brokers representing 86 national associations across Europe, North America and ...
CAT is out of the bag as firms unveil products.
The race for the Individual Savings Account market has begun in earnest, with leading insurers jostl...
Pleading hearts.
The form and content of pleadings is outlined in this the fourth in Post Magazine's legal series on ...
What the Papers Say.
THE MIRROR Direct Line is refusing to insure the two journalists who write the paper's "City Slic...
Chubb claims goes multi-national.
The Chubb group of Insurance Companies has established a new multinational claims unit for policyhol...
IUA unveils marine team.
The International Underwriting Association of London has revealed the make-up of its marine technica...
Free food off the menu at Eagle Star.
Staff and union representatives at Eagle Star are boiling over after the Zurich management team reve...
Rhine Re latest member of IUA of London.
US-owned Rhine Re is the latest member of the International Underwriting Associaton of London. The c...
Welfare reform: the state we're in.
The constant barrage of plans for reforming the welfare state and, in particular, pensions provision...