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Lloyd’s accredited Pioneer Underwriters has launched a new property excess and surplus (E&S) and hired David Phillips to lead the team based in Alpharetta, Georgia.   6 November 2017
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Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer Lancashire Holdings has decided against paying a special dividend in 2017 and instead to deploy the capital in a hardening market but analysts commented that the company also faces higher retrocession rates, Bernstein analysts wrote in a note.   6 November 2017
Insurance
Specialty and commercial re/insurer Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, appointed Bruce Love as director of assumed reinsurance in its casualty treaty department.   6 November 2017
Insurance
Broker Willis Towers Watson appointed Evariste Yeung as head of property and casualty, North Asia.   6 November 2017
Insurance
The recent catastrophe losses have changed the market dynamics: rates will increase, benefiting a sector that S&P Global Ratings views as robustly capitalised overall, as David Masters of S&P Global Ratings explains to SIRC Today.   1 November 2017
Insurance
While insurers in many Asian markets are enjoying solid growth, reinsurers are lagging behind in this regard as they also grapple with overcapacity putting downward pressure on rates—but some rate corrections are now expected after the heavy losses in North America, William Ho, head of reinsurance, Asia, MS Amlin, told SIRC Today.   31 October 2017
Insurance
Reinsurers that attempt to increase rates on programmes in Asia on the back of the recent catastrophe losses in North America risk losing market share to new or emerging reinsurance capital that has so far struggled to gain market share in the region, Stuart Beatty, chief executive, Asia-Pacific, JLT Re, told SIRC Today.   31 October 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
Aon Securities has published its annual ILS report: Alternative Capital Breaks New Boundaries. Paul Schultz, its chief executive, tells SIRC Today about the key developments during what has been a record year for ILS.   31 October 2017
Insurance
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria (HIM) serve as another reminder that the re/insurance industry must maintain underwriting discipline, even in the face of such a competitive global market, Kent Chaplin, CEO of Lloyd’s Asia-Pacific, told SIRC Today.   31 October 2017
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Markel wants to develop deeper partnerships with local cedants across a number of Asian jurisdictions as it looks to grow its bottom line profitably, Matt Cannock, principal officer and managing director of Markel Asia-Pacific, told SIRC Today.   31 October 2017

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