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Alternative Risk Transfer

ILS market on course as second quarter opens

The ILS market remains on course for healthy growth as it enters the second quarter of the year, according to Paul Schultz, chief executive of Aon Securities.   23 March 2017

Alternative Risk Transfer

Pension plans eye ILS as investment opportunity

Fifty percent of pension plans state that getting trustees comfortable with ILS is the biggest impediment to allocation. Noel Hillmann, managing director of Clear Path Analysis, takes a look at the findings of a recent survey.   23 March 2017

Alternative Risk Transfer

2016: An unusual catastrophe year

PCS designated more catastrophe events in 2016 than in any year since 1980, as Tom Johansmeyer of ISO Claims Analytics, a division of Verisk Insurance Solutions, reports.   23 March 2017

Insurance

Beazley hires Guy Carpenter exec to head US marine business

Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed former Guy Carpenter executive Stephen Vivian to lead its US marine business.   23 March 2017

Insurance

Industrial insurer HDI 2016 results jump on tighter underwriting discipline

Germany-based industrial insurer HDI Global has tightened its underwriting discipline and saw its combined ratio and underwriting performance improve in 2016 as a result.   23 March 2017

News

VIG Re plans expansion in Germany; to enter France, Switzerland

Vienna Insurance Group’s VIG Re plans to grow its reinsurance business in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, the company said in a press release.   23 March 2017

Insurance

Tokio Marine HCC unit snaps up $67.4mn crop MGA

Tokio Marine HCC's crop insurance unit Producers Ag Insurance Group (ProAg) is set to acquire US-based crop managing general agent (MGA) International Ag Insurance Solutions.   23 March 2017

Insurance

Swiss Re appoints new head of property and specialty

Swiss Re has appointed Mike Mitchell as the head of property and specialty reinsurance to succeed Edouard Schmid who will assume the group chief underwriting officer (CUO) role at the company.   23 March 2017

Insurance

Lloyd’s Market Association names five new board members

The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has appointed five new members to its board with effect from May 17.   23 March 2017

Insurance

AmWINS taps XL Catlin exec for London MGA Unicorn

US-based global insurance broker AmWINS Group has appointed Perry Lyons as motor fleet underwriter for its London-based managing general agent (MGA) Unicorn Underwriting.   23 March 2017

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