Regulation
Airing your genes in public.
Peter Maynard of Swiss Re reveals the general public's view of the genetics and insurance debate.
BT sells out to Rhine Re.
Bankers Trust is to sell its insurance units to Rhine Re, the Switzerland and Bermuda-based reinsure...
Appointment at Hartford.
David Robb is to head the reinsurance operations of The Hartford Financial Services Group when John ...
US P&C income drops as cats bare their claws.
Greatly increased catastrophe losses caused the net income of the US property casualty industry to s...
Thinking global, acting local.
Adrian Ballardie, head of Axa Re UK, tells Janina Clark about his preparations for a harder UK market.
Aviation faces a long haul.
Steve Breen of Risk Capital Re sees tremendous aviation industry growth on the horizon, but wonders if insurers will profit from it.
It's ART, but is it legal?
Reinsurers seeking to transfer risk to the capital markets must be aware of the potential legal pitfalls, says Hilary Evenett.
Investment boost saves Swiss Re.
Despite doubling its non-life losses in the first half of this year, an extremely good investment pe...
Swiss peaks and troughs.
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PartnerRe joins elite with $750m deal.
PartnerRe is to double its gross premiums and become one of the world's top 15 reinsurance groups wi...
The difference a year makes.
Clarity of the law on unpunctual notification of losses will be crucial in the run-up to 2000, reports Stephen Collette.
Appointment at St Paul Re.
St Paul Re has appointed an executive management group to cover all its operations. Michael Schell m...
FSA says savings accounts must carry risk warning.
The financial regulator has moved to counter possible public confusion surrounding the forthcoming I...
No surprise for ABI as Boleat bows out.
The decision of Mark Boleat to resign as director general of the Association of British Insurers is ...
Footballer's launch Axa's "football kits for the community".
Liverpool and England midfield star Jamie Redknapp and team mate Michael Owen launched Axa's £330,00...
London market moves a step closer to a united voice.
The news that the new International Underwriting Association of London is set to come into being in ...
Insurers in first-of-its-kind case.
A first-of-its-kind case involved a life assurance company and Lloyd's underwriters and insurance fi...
Tributes for Boleat as he quits.
The shock resignation of Association of British Insurers' director general Mark Boleat has surprised...
A decision is made but uncertainty still lingers.
David Worsfold and Francis Higney examine the implications of the Insurance Brokers Registration Council's decision to soldier-on to its bitter end.
Movers, shakers & money makers.
David Fanning finds out who's earning what among the UK's company directors, but says that salary surveys can be mis-leading.
New reports could stir genetics row.
The argument that an insurance underclass could be created as genetic testing becomes widespread is ...
Pension trustees fight tax assessments.
The trustees of three exempt approved pension schemes (the BT Pension Scheme, the Post office staff ...
US Names fail in great debt escape.
A back-door scheme to insert a clause into the US Federal Budget that would have enabled dissident N...
PIA holds fire on top-up pensions action.
The Personal Investment Authority has ducked any decisive move against firms who have mis-sold top-u...