News/Reinsurance
Appointment at Benfield Greig.
Reinsurance intermediary Benfield Greig Group has announced the appointment of Bill Staple to the bo...
Gloom predicted as underwriters rush in.
Lloyd's open years of account are due to deliver swelling losses, ratings agencies and analysts are ...
Brazilian hold-up.
Following the opening of Zurich Re's new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the firm now has to wait for n...
Appointment at International Insurance Society.
International Insurance Society, a New York-based non-profit educational organisation of executives,...
Disasters waiting to happen.
Insufficient catastrophe reinsurance cover is being bought in many markets, despite overcapacity. Ulrich Schweizer and Maria-Elisabeth Fischer summarise the findings of Swiss Re's latest Catastrophe Market Research Project (CAMARES).
Watch for warnings.
Market trends become magnified in the reinsurance world. This was a truth brought home sharply at l...
Benfield Greig heads north.
Benfield Greig has announced the launch of Benfield Greig Canada, having, until recently, seen littl...
Winds of change blow gently.
Rates, rates and rates were the key topics of last month's reinsurance Rendez-Vous, but an upturn in the market is far from certain. Janina Clark reports from Monte Carlo.
Appointment at Capital Re.
Bruce Reich (above) has joined US reinsurer Capital Re as executive vice-president and chief underwr...
Appointment at Gerling Global Re.
Gerling Global Re of America has made three appointments to its property underwriting team. Robert G...
Diving in at the deep end.
Taking over a top reinsurer with no experience of the market might frighten some people, but not Dave Calhoun. Janina Clark meets the new head of Employers Re.
Appointment at Willis.
Property/casualty specialist Frank Rieder has left his position as vice-president of reinsurance bro...
Benfield Greig withholds IT system.
Reinsurance broker Benfield Greig is holding back the release of a new IT-based settlement system be...
No Net benefit.
Benfield Greig's radical, new Internet-based system could transform reinsurance relationships, but the market is not ready for it. Adrian Leonard reports.
PXRE takes on SmithKline.
Lloyd's managing agency PXRE is to manage SmithKline Beecham's captive syndicate 1250. It will assum...
Appointment at IPC Information Systems.
Steve Phillips has been appointed managing director of IPC's Asia Pacific division. He joins from Sy...
Hard times.
Reinsurers have endured huge losses over the last couple of years due to the high number of catastrophes. In the wake of last week's Monte Carlo Rendezvous, Adrian Leonard analyses the future for the reinsurance rating cycle in London.
Reinsurance market could be halved.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
Jaguar chooses Tracker.
Jaguar has chosen Tracker as the recommended provider of tracking devices for its latest range of ca...
The mood in Monte.
On the eve of this year's Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, Janina Clark asks reinsurers about the present and future state of their market, and gets some conflicting answers.
Bug's legal effects.
Don Cruickshank, chairman of Action 2000, has warned businesses that they could face "potentially di...
£164m in the red.
Australian insurer AMP has slipped into the red by A$398 (£164m) partly due to liabilities incurred ...
Girl power.
Over the last three decades, women have made considerable progress in the struggle against gender prejudice in reinsurance, but Liesl Hattingh finds it remains a tough career path.
Hannover shares "a bargain".
The Hannover Re group has complained that its shares are undervalued despite its continued good perf...