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Zurich’s life business has enabled Zurich to post a stable operating profit in the first half of 2017, offsetting the impact caused by the UK’s personal injury Ogden rate change.   10 August 2017
News
Hannover Re posted a remarkably bullish set of results in the first half of 2017 enjoying growth in profits and gross written premiums despite an “intensely competitive” property/casualty market and its performance in life and health reinsurance “not entirely satisfactory”.   10 August 2017
Insurance
Aegon has agreed to sell its Dublin-based subsidiary Aegon Ireland to AGER Bermuda, the holding company of the European operations of Athene Holding.   10 August 2017
News
Pricing on many lines of business continued to soften in the June 1 and July 1 renewals on the back of intense competition though price increases were recorded on treaties hit by losses, especially in Australia and New Zealand, according to Hannover Re, commenting in relation to its first half results.   10 August 2017
News
Pressure on the reinsurance operations and investment income are increasingly weighing on Munich Re’s results, but the new CEO Joachim Wenning says that there is not much he can do about the main factors behind it as they are beyond the company’s control.   9 August 2017
News
Profits plummeted at Munich Re in the second quarter of 2017 but the world’s biggest reinsurer said it was still well on track to reach its 2017 profit guidance of between €2 billion €2.4 billion.   9 August 2017
Insurance
Former Cooper Gay CEO Toby Esser is set to acquire a majority stake in independent London broker AFL, sources told Intelligent Insurer.   8 August 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
Solidum Partners, the Switzerland-based investment firm that specialises in helping companies issue private cat bonds, has facilitated the issuance of the first insurance-linked security (ILS) whereby the traditional settlement system has been replaced with the use of blockchain.   8 August 2017
Insurance
The London Market Group (LMG) said on Aug. 8 that it introduced an online service that converts the contents of a paper Market Reform Contract (MRC) – the policy wording – into consistent electronic data that can then be ingested by the carriers’ own systems.   8 August 2017
Insurance
Aon Groep Nederland has entered into an agreement to acquire Unirobe Meeùs Groep (UMG) from Aegon for €295 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017.   8 August 2017

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