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Miller has appointed senior executives into its corporate risks and reinsurance teams. 27 March 2013
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Demand for transactional risk insurance grew by 41 per cent globally in 2012 as firms increasingly turned to the insurance market to protect large deals and cross-border acquisitions or sales. 15 March 2013
Insurance
A strong set of results announced by the private equity backed Nexus Group could set it on course to become the largest independent managing general agency (MGA) in the London Market. The group has expanded quickly since its formation in March 2010 through a series of mergers and acquisitions. 13 March 2013
Insurance
Novae Group has posted its 2012 results. It made a pre-tax profit of £49.3 million compared with a loss of £6 million last year, its gross written premiums decreasing to £612 million from £624 million in 2011. Its combined ratio for the year was 90.5 per cent, a big improvement on the 101.5 per cent it posted in 2011. “Three years ago we set out our objectives for driving up the returns of the group by re-engineering our business mix and by rigorously managing capital and costs. Three years on, this strategy has delivered a steadily improving group performance particularly in 2012 delivering a return on equity of 17.6 per cent,” said Matthew Fosh, group chief executive. 13 March 2013
Insurance
Bermuda-based MS Frontier Re has appointed a new president and CEO. Starting on April 1, Toshiya Naito will take over the role from Keiichi Nakajima who will return to Japan to take on new responsibilities within MS Frontier Re’s parent company. Naito is a 25-year veteran with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, the parent company and sole shareholder of MS Frontier Re. MS Frontier Group recently completed a reorganisation on January 1 which saw the closure of MS Frontier Re’s sister office in Dublin. 13 March 2013
Insurance
Senior executives at JLT Reinsurance (North America) believe a structure used in a recent deal that helped Citizens Property Insurance Company, Florida’s residual insurance company, transfer 31,000 policies to a new company and reduce its exposure by some $30 billion in the process could lead to similar deals in the future and opportunities for JLT Re as a result. 5 March 2013
Insurance
A number of recent acts of terrorism and violence against energy companies and their facilities around the world have led to an upsurge of interest in terrorism and political violence coverage. This is being matched by buoyant levels of capacity in the sector, despite a sense of unease among insurers underwriting these risks. 28 February 2013
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Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings has announced that Jerome Faure will join the company on March 11 as CEO of global reinsurance. He will be responsible for Endurance’s North America, Bermuda and international reinsurance operations. Most recently, Faure was a partner in ILS Capital Management in Bermuda focused on insurance linked securities, industry loss warranties and collateralized reinsurance. Prior to that, he served as director and chief underwriting officer for Tokio Millennium Re. He started his career at Scor. 27 February 2013
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Martin Sullivan, the deputy chairman of Willis Group Holdings and chairman and CEO of the Willis Global Solutions unit, will leave the firm in May 2013, after a transition, to pursue other interests. 20 February 2013
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The insurance market in China has rapidly developed in terms of its sophistication and the calibre of personnel it attracts in the past 15 years meaning greater opportunities for international players that invest in establishing a foothold there. 14 February 2013
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