E&Y predicts more southeast Asia opportunities
24 March 2014
Trade liberalisation is creating new opportunities in southeast Asia, but insurers should beware regulatory differences, according to an Ernst & Young global outlook report…
24 March 2014
Trade liberalisation is creating new opportunities in southeast Asia, but insurers should beware regulatory differences, according to an Ernst & Young global outlook report…
24 March 2014
Reinsurers’ traditional business model is under pressure from the growing influence of alternative market capacity, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter…
24 March 2014
Munich Re is aiming for a profit of €3 billion ($4.58 billion) this year, down 9% on last year due to low interest rates and expectations of a higher tax bill…
24 March 2014
Aviva has become the first UK insurer to publish customer claims reviews on its website…
24 March 2014
Japanese earthquake insurance premiums will rise an average of 15.5% in July, according to AM Best…
24 March 2014
US reinsurer profits increased more than 40% last year, according to Reinsurance Association of America underwriting results…
17 March 2014
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has called for reform of the general insurance add-on market, after a review found consumers being overcharged up to £200 million…
17 March 2014
Most US insurance companies’ CFOs do not use alternative forms of capital for reinsurance but are open to doing so in future, according to a survey by consultants Towers Watson…
17 March 2014
Hannover Re’s earnings grew 5.4% to €895.5 million ($1.39 billion) last year, driven by increased non-life premiums…
17 March 2014
Zurich Insurance has announced a reorganisation that will cut about 800 staff from its global workforce of 55,000…
17 March 2014
Allianz has flagged increasing supervision, legislation and solvency requirements as challenges for the year ahead…
17 March 2014
US property and casualty insurers increased their earnings by 54% last year, according to Moody’s…
17 March 2014
Members of the Lloyd’s Market Association and the London and International Insurance Brokers Association have backed a review of Lloyd’s claims management…
10 March 2014
Costs from acquisitions and a business transformation program caused JLT Group’s profit to drop marginally to £101.96 million last year…
10 March 2014
Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance earnings grew 28% to $US7.8 billion last year as all divisions except General Re posted gains…
10 March 2014
Deadly snowstorms in Japan have caused insured losses of about $US585 million, according to Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap for last month…
10 March 2014
Traditional reinsurers must be wary of diversifying to survive amid fierce competition, Willis Re President Paddy Jago warns…
10 March 2014
Arthur J Gallagher has set up an Asian hub and moved Australian executive Dick Heath from Sydney to Singapore to run it…
10 March 2014
The number of new complaints to the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service grew 38% to a record high of 575,836 last year…
10 March 2014
Scor’s global property and casualty gross written premium grew 8.3% to €4.8 billion last year.