Reinsurance
Axa and Renaissance invest in ICAT Managers
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are to take stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
Axa and Renaissance invest in ICAT Managers
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are to take stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
"Something for nothing" can't go on
Buyers of marine insurance must realise that they cannot have something for nothing all the time, war...
"Something for nothing" can't go on
Buyers of marine insurance must realise that they cannot have something for nothing all the time, war...
John Charman quits Ace International.
John Charman has quit his position as president and chief executive of Ace International because of ...
News in brief.
Hannover Re has expanded its US program business with the acquisition of business and an underwritin...
News in brief.
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries General Re and Berkshire Hathaway Re recorded pre-tax underwriting l...
News in brief.
US (re)insurer The St Paul Companies has sold its 1.7m shares in Renaissance Re, the Bermudian prope...
Benfield eyes EW Blanch.
Troubled US reinsurance broker EW Blanch is believed to be in talks about its possible takeover by t...
Charity sponsorship.
John Tyszkiewicz of broker Guy Carpenter raised £35,000 ($50,000) for charity despite extreme weathe...
News in brief.
Hannover Re expects its net income for 2000 to be up 78% on 1999 to around EUR360m, due largely to t...
Hampton Re opens for business
A new life reinsurance company, Hampton Re, has been set up in Bermuda by Bill Walker, former preside...
US motor in a spin.
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, has accused State Farm M...
Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Darwin Rhodes, recruitment consultants for the financial services industry, has a new consultant on ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is off to Cardiff next week to join her friends in the loss adjusting fraternity, armed with h...
Premium growth for US P&C reinsurers
US property casualty reinsurers wrote $24.9bn of net premiums last year, up from $21.2bn in 1999, acc...
Ace rules out exit.
Bermudian insurer Ace denied speculation this week that the shock departure of the high-profile John...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Following the departure of John Charman from Ace this week, Penny's mind wandered to the whereabouts...
Charman quits Ace
John Charman has quit Bermuda-based insurer Ace only weeks after being promoted to group president an...
Roped in to stunt.
The London Underwriting Centre was the venue for a challenge set by TV programme Don't Try This At H...
BG in merger talks.
London market broker Benfield Greig is in talks with Texas-based rival EW Blanch, which could lead t...
Hannover predicts profit leap for 2000
Hannover Re, the world's fifth largest reinsurer, has said it expects its net income for 2000 to be u...
Hannover issues hybrid capital
Hannover Re has placed a subordinated loan of Euro 350m ($326m) of hybrid capital on the European cap...
Hannover Re shrugs off poor Clarendon result
Hannover Re says that a large drop in profit at its Clarendon Insurance subsidiary in 2000 would have...