Reinsurance
Hurricane loss damage - Brit unveils extent of hurricane losses
Brit Insurance Holdings has announced that claims arising from Hurricane Wilma, net of reinsurance r...
Converium restates profits
Converium has announced that it is to restate its profits as it carries out an extensive internal re...
Montpelier Re reveals massive hurricane losses
Montpelier Re Holdings has reported a net loss of $875.1m for the three months to 30 September 2005,...
TRIA bill - US Senate passes TRIA extension bill
The US Senate has passed a bill to continue a programme of federal guarantees to cover losses from t...
Why models are not the whole story
Inside view
The only awards where YOU decide who wins
Reinsurance Readers Awards 05
New reinsurers - Bermuda reinsurer deluge continues
Bermuda hedge fund management company West End Capital is about to launch a new reinsurer, Flagstone...
Ratings review - Rating agencies downgrade RenRe
Moody's Investors Service has lowered the senior debt rating on RenaissanceRe Holdings to Baa1 from ...
Moody's report weighs impact of Hurricane Wilma
Moody's has published a new report concluding that the add-on losses of Hurricane Wilma - one of the...
Start-ups beware: does GE know something you don't?
Mark Geoghegan thinks that Swiss Re's purchase of GE Insurance Solutions (GEIS) shows that a soft market could reassert itself much faster than anyone currently imagines
Hurricane Katrina
Annual review 2005
Why now is the time to give your best staff a pay rise
Dear friend, When a head-hunter calls, it's always a strange and unexpected conversation - you're a...
New start-ups
Here is the full list of start-ups so far: BAAAFHHLNVCCG A stream of new start-up reinsurers, includ...
2005 - One long, slow-motion disaster
Annual review 2005
Diversification - The only way to go
With the pure catastrophe reinsurers taking the biggest hit from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, Patrick Thiele, the president and chief executive officer of PartnerRe, tells Mairi Mallon that diversification has proven to be the only way to go
Company acquisition - New Bermuda reinsurer to pick up Chubb business
Stone Point Capital has formed Harbor Point, a global reinsurance company that will be based in Berm...
2005 Reinsurance Magazine diary
Annual review 2005
Brave Spirit!
Mairi Mallon interviews industry veteran Don Kramer to find out about his new start-up venture, Ariel Re - not coincidentally named after the character of Ariel, Shakespeare's 'brave spirit' from The Tempest
XL names new Bermudian start-up Cyrus Re
XL has revealed the identity of its new start-up property catastrophe reinsurance retrocessionaire as Cyrus Re, domiciled on Bermuda, with initial capital of $500m.
Advent ups Katrina loss by 46%, to raise £30m in equity
Lloyd's property catastrophe reinsurer Advent Capital has today announced sharply increased loss estimates for losses arising from the 2005 Hurricane season and an £30m ($53m)equity issue.
Omega announces unchanged syndicate forecast
Omega Underwriting has announced an unchanged forecasts for Syndicate 958 for the 2003 and 2004 years of account. The Syndicate’s 2005 account is expected to be profitable
Wellington hammered by hurricane losses
Wellington Underwriting, whose wholly owned subsidiary Wellington Underwriting Agencies manages Syndicate 2020 at Lloyd’s, has released a further update about the extent of losses sustained from hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005.
Goshawk in board shake-up
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