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ILS market faces natural pause in pipeline

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is facing a possible brief doldrum in 2019, before reviving in the second half of the year, according to Paul Schultz, chief executive of Aon Securities.   29 March 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

CCR Re sets up France-domiciled sidecar 157 Re to access new ILS investors

Medium sized reinsurer CCR Re has set up 157 Re, a sidecar vehicle, which it said is the first to be domiciled in France, to give it access to new ILS investors.   28 March 2019

Insurance

Arch Capital-backed Watford expects Nasdaq listing this week

Arch Capital-backed Bermuda re/insurer Watford Holdings expects to start trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on March 28, having filed its registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.   27 March 2019

Insurance

AJG’s Alesco feared ‘planned attack’ of poaching by Ross’ Ardonagh

The departure of four people from an Arthur J Gallagher team to join the Ardonagh group was viewed as a “planned attack”, according to John Thompson, a managing partner at Alesco, as he gave evidence in the poaching case brought by AJG.   25 March 2019

Insurance

EU regulator approves Marsh-JLT merger; date set for final completion

The European Commission has approved Marsh & McLennan Companies' (MMC's) acquisition of re/insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT), conditional on the divestment of JLT's global aerospace practice.   25 March 2019

Insurance

Willis Re hires Brit's former head of claims Steve Robson in London

Willis Re, the reinsurance division of broker Willis Towers Watson, has hired Steve Robson as head of London market reinsurance claims.   25 March 2019

Insurance

RenRe closes $1.5bn Tokio Millennium Re acquisition; AM Best removes reinsurer from 'under review'

Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings (RenRe) has completed the acquisition of Tokio Millennium Re (TMR) following the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.   25 March 2019

Insurance

Chubb appoints accident & health division head in Singapore

Insurer Chubb has appointed Serene Neo as division head of accident & health (A&H) for Singapore. She will report to Scott Simpson, Chubb's country president for Singapore.   25 March 2019

Insurance

Florida ‘still cash cow’ for insurers, say KBW analysts after Guy Carpenter Summit

Analysts from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) said “Florida is still a cash cow for reinsurers”, with demand looking “flat to up”, while “supply looks flat”, following Guy Carpenter's (GC) 2019 Florida Summit.   21 March 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Markel: ILS represents ‘strategic pillar’ despite CATCo challenges

Markel said it is “incredibly optimistic” about the future of its insurance linked securities (ILS) business despite ongoing investigations into recorded loss reserves at CATCo and its subsidiaries.   19 March 2019

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