Reinsurance
XL Mid Ocean swaps cat.
XL Mid Ocean Re, the reinsurance operation of merged Bermudian insurers Exel and Mid Ocean, has carr...
Acquisitive is positive.
Janina Clark talks to Michael O'Halleran about the rise and rise of Aon Group.
Axa's 'captive' retains risk.
For the first time in the four years of the company's existence, Axa Cessions has retained some of t...
IPC Holdings hit by cat losses.
A return to a more normal level of catastrophe losses meant net income for the second quarter of 199...
Acquisitions give Ace a great hand.
The third quarter results of Bermuda-based insurance giant Ace have been boosted by the inclusion of...
Blanch buys retro.
Broker E.W. Blanch has acquired specialist retrocessional reinsurance broker Dunn & Carter. The oper...
Here we go again.
There has been a fairly steady stream of takeovers, buyouts and alliances in the insurance and reins...
Rating roulette with high stakes.
When the world's leading players in the reinsurance market sit down around the cafe tables of Monte ...
Re-Structuring, -fining, -grouping ...
... all key topics at the annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, which some 2000 reinsurance delegates will attend next week. Janina Clark looks at what might be on the agenda.
CMG in £1.5m deal with Aon.
Aon has revealed the fully updated details of a £1.5m, three year support and maintenance contract a...
Mad about M&A.
Technology giant IBM has conducted a survey of European insurance executives which found 54% of them...
Taking a gamble.
Reinsurers are heading into the unknown in Monte Carlo this year, says Janina Clark.
General Re deal finds favour.
The shock $22bn acquisition of General Re by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathawa...
Benfield & Rea Investment Trust.
Lloyd's corporate investor Benfield & Rea Investment Trust (Brit) is seeking to become an insurance ...
Ace buys more Lloyd's capacity.
Acquisitive Bermudian insurer Ace has bought all the ordinary share capital of Limit (No.9) Ltd, a c...
New Lloyd's agency.
Omega Underwriting Agents, a new Lloyd's managing agency, has been formed to manage syndicate 958, w...
New IIL officers.
The Insurance Institute of London has elected Dieter Losse, deputy chairman of reinsurance broker Be...
A tale of three cities.
Adrian Leonard talks to Graham Dimmock of PartnerRe and SAFR about life in a global market.
Swiss Re's £6m deal.
Swiss Re New Markets has compled a new reinsurance transaction that provides £6m of risk protection ...
AIG muscles in on pensions with $18bn takeover.
The largest US Property and causality insurer AIG has entered the pensions market with the $18bn (£1...
Feeling hot, hot, hot we were not, not not.
Weather statistics released for July.
Hannover profits swell.
Record results last year saw Hannover Re's net profit climb 13.4% to just over £34m. The Group's gro...
Adam Richardson finished second.
Post Magazine-sponsored Porsche Carrera driver Adam Richardson stormed to a second position finish i...
Atrium merger agreed.
Atrium Cockell Group which manages two syndicates at Lloyd's (570 and 609) with a combined stamp cap...