23 November 2015
Ace has unveiled its team to oversee 13 markets in the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, when the merger with US insurer Chubb is completed in the first quarter of next year…
23 November 2015
Businesses that understand and manage risk well perform better financially and have less volatile stock, according to the new Aon Risk Maturity Index Insight Report…
23 November 2015
The rapidly growing cyber-cover market poses risks for insurers as they respond to rising demand for protection against data theft and other attacks, according to a Moody’s report…
23 November 2015
The UK Government’s flood reinsurance pool is on course to begin operating in April as planned, after it officially became a statutory body and secured £1.29 billion of cover from global reinsurers…
23 November 2015
Industry think-tank the Geneva Association has backed moves to counter climate change in the run-up to next week’s United Nations summit on the issue…
23 November 2015
Terrorism caused record levels of economic damage last year, according to a new report from the Institute for Economics & Peace, a global think-tank based in Sydney…
23 November 2015
Talbot Underwriting’s CEO Rupert Atkin will step down and take up the Chairman’s role early next year, Bermuda-based parent Validus Holdings says…
23 November 2015
Tokio Marine Holdings has reduced its earnings outlook by 9.5% for the year to March 31 following a sharp decline in half-year net profit…
16 November 2015
Global loss adjustor Crawford & Company has reported a net loss of $US900,000 in the third quarter, a massive plunge from its net profit of $US10.2 million in the corresponding quarter last year…
16 November 2015
Ebix Consulting for Life & Annuity Insurance has been honoured at the Association for Co-operative Operations Research and Development awards…
16 November 2015
New York-listed Computer Sciences Corporation has put in a last-minute offer of £421 million for UK-based insurance outsourcing company Xchanging…
16 November 2015
Insurance industry mergers and acquisitions are at their highest level for years and the trend is set to continue, according to Moody’s…
16 November 2015
UK-based global reinsurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford has announced plans to sell its entire North America business…
16 November 2015
The global insurance-linked securities market continued to expand in the third quarter, according to the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s market report…
16 November 2015
Bermuda-based specialist (re)insurer Hiscox reports gross written premium of £1.54 billion for the first nine months of this year, up 12.9%…
16 November 2015
Beazley says gross written premium totalled $US1.64 billion for the nine months to September 30, up 6% on the corresponding period last year…
16 November 2015
HDI-Gerling Industrial Insurance’s parent Talanx has reported third-quarter net income of €177 million, up 18.8% on the corresponding period last year…
09 November 2015
It’s a buyer’s market in the Asia-Pacific region, with reinsurance capacity outweighing demand, according to a new report from Guy Carpenter…
09 November 2015
AIG has reported a net loss of $US231 million for the third quarter, compared with a net profit of $US2.2 billion in the corresponding period last year…
09 November 2015
Cyber risks are among the greatest threats to a nation’s infrastructure, but state-subsidised insurance pools are not the answer, according to Munich Re…