News/Reinsurance
The Renaissance Insurance Group.
The Renaissance Insurance Group (RIG) has launched what is thought to be Russia's first on-line insu...
New chairman for Lloyd's Community Programme
Michael Carpenter, chief financial officer of LIMIT, is to succeed Robin Gilkes as chairman of the Ll...
Tempest Re makes US appointment
Bermudian monoline catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has appointed reinsurance veteran of 21 years Jac...
BRIT sees market upturn
Motor insurance, especially vehicle fleets, commercial satellite insurance and retrocessional cover a...
Crawley in Texas tie-up
Texas-based broker EW Blanch Holdings has acquired Crawley Warren Group for £25m, reinforcing EW Bl...
Hannover builds on good health.
Hannover Re Group is to turn its life and health operations into a separate division, Hannover Life ...
Reasons to be cheerful.
Every cloud has a silver lining and, if you look hard enough, you can find something positive in eve...
Web winners.
Lloyd's syndicate Beazley has won reinsurance broker RJ Carvill's fifth annual Best Insurance Compan...
Swiss Re launches electronic exchange.
Swiss Re began trading reinsurance cover on the Internet late last month with a week-long auction of...
Few rate increases on the horizon.
The end of October saw the last annual pilgrimage of insurers and reinsurers to Baden-Baden before t...
Buy affects profits.
Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition of General Re has been blamed for hurting its third-quarter returns...
Mergers not a quick-fix remedy.
The failure of so many mergers to deliver additional shareholder value was one of the most significa...
Swiss Re launch.
Swiss Re has launched 'Electronic Risk Exchange', an Internet-based service that trades reinsurance ...
Hannover Re in third securitisation deal
Hannover Re has completed a third deal for the transfer of acquisition costs in its life reinsurance ...
New president and COO at Ace
Dominic Frederico has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Bermudian reinsurer A...
Swiss Re's Internet exchange
Reinsurer Swiss Re has launched the Electronic Risk Exchange (ELRiX) which allows for standardised ri...
Scientists issue gale warnings.
Insurers can expect turbulence this winter as boffins predict it's going to blow much harder than us...
Appointment at Benfield Greig Group.
The Conservative Party's Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude MP has joined financial services group Benf...
Admiral appoints Lloyd's managing agency
PXRE, the specialist captive and corporate management services provider, has been appointed as the Ll...
What the Papers Say.
The fashion model girlfriend of Wet Wet Wet singer Marti Pellow is demanding £5000 from a sweet comp...
Stormy prediction.
Three tropical storms and one hurricane are expected to strike US shores between June and November 2...
Baden doesn't bode well for reinsurers.
Renewal rates look set to disappoint reinsurers, said commentators at last week's Baden-Baden get to...
Innovation on call.
Syntellect Europe, the software specialist based in in Maidenhead, Berkshire, has launched a new cal...
Hope glimmers for property/catastrophe market
New evidence of a tightening of rates in the property catastrophe market has come to light according ...