Reinsurance
Competition winners
The 10 winners of the Post Magazine/AIG competition - who have won a pair of tickets to see Constabl...
Price warnings fail to impress
Broker Benfield and insurer Fortis fell out of favour at investment house Keefe Bruyette and Woods t...
Wellington to hit target on cat exposures, continues Aspen exit
Lloyd’s insurer Wellington has reported accelerating average rate increases and said that it expected to have written all its targeted aggregate catatrophe exposures by 1st July.
Swiss Re announces new Nat cat programme
Swiss Re has announced the placement of a natural catastrophe protection programme called Successor, the follow-up vehicle to the PIONEER and Arbor programmes, which has allowed it to place $950m in protection.
Inaction over climate change could leave industry bust: Report
The insurance industry must face up to the growing threat of climate change or risk being swept away, according to a report released today by Lloyd's.
Appointment at Talbot
Talbot has made several appointments, including Andrew Keogan as head of internal audit; Rod Harris ...
Flying high
Aviation
Validus goes for 75% Q/S with new sidecar
Class of 2005 start-up Validus Re has announced that it has done a two-year sidecar collateralised q...
The hardest market in 27 years
A year ago, Mark Geoghegan found Chris Clark (CC) lamenting the softness of a marine market that was only just recovering from Hurricane Ivan - at that time its biggest-ever loss. One year and two big storms later, the world has been turned upside-down..
Convergence commands changes
Inside View
Cat bonds - you've never had it so good
Mark Geoghegan predicts that 2006 will be a high-water mark for this form of high finance
D&O rates continue to slide, as shown in Willis Index
Directors' and Officers' (D&O) liability insurance rates in the London market were largely unaffecte...
PXRE storm losses prompt lawsuits
A class action has been filed against PXRE alleging that the company misrepresented its losses from ...
Bermuda's STILL rock-solid!
Dear Friend, A year ago I wrote to you under the banner 'Bermuda's rock-solid'. Well, 31 N...
Max Re faces Nasdaq de-listing due to finite probe
Max Re Capital has tentatively announced its results for the first quarter of 2006, stressing that t...
PXRE hangs on by slim thread as 65% of business lost
Reporting first-quarter results, Jeffrey Radke, president and chief executive of troubled Bermudian ...
What the US can learn from Australia
Disaster planning
The secret of my success
Bermuda
Recruitment moves
Re-sume
Hannover Re happy with Q1 performance
Hannover Re has expressed 'considerable satisfaction' with its start to the new financial year. "Wit...
RMS brings in new European modelling platform
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), has announced the launch of a new platform for quantifying wind-related risk in 12 European countries.
Max Re investigation leads to restated 2001-2005 results
Max Re Capital has announced that its Audit and Risk Management Committee has concluded its previously announced internal investigation, and that it has had to restate its financial results for 2001 to 2005.