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Analysis

GI insurers in good shape after disasters

30 January 2012

Most Australian general insurers are making a profit despite a string of natural disasters, but some clocked up spectacular losses during the 2011 financial year…

Foreign insurers step back from China

12 December 2011

The Chinese insurance market is continuing to be a tough challenge for foreign insurers, with banks entering the market and domestic competitors getting favourable treatment from regulators…

Reinsurers v insurers: Rates starting to harden

14 November 2011

Reinsurance has served disaster-affected communities well this year, but there was always going to be a price to pay and it is being reflected in the reinsurers’ results for the September quarter…

Would you buy AMI?

07 November 2011

At first glance, New Zealand’s second-largest home and contents insurer AMI should be attractive to another insurer wanting to buy a customer base of 485,000 clients and about a third…

Reinsurance: NZ breathes again

24 October 2011

Money has triumphed over fear in the New Zealand reinsurance market. Higher reinsurance rates are attracting reinsurers who have not normally operated in the market, offsetting fears…

FOFA: In whose best interest?

17 October 2011

How financial advisers are paid has been the headline act of the Future of Financial Advice legislation, but another issue has much wider implications…

No end in sight to Canterbury insurance embargo

29 August 2011

As the anniversary of the first Christchurch earthquake approaches, the ground is still shaking and there is no end in sight to the embargo on writing new business in the Canterbury area…

US debt downgrade will not affect general insurers

15 August 2011

US insurance regulators and company executives have rushed into damage control mode following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US Federal Government debt, reassuring consumers and markets…