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Despite total economic losses estimated between $6.5 and $14.5 billion, Typhoon Haiyan will have little or no impact on renewals or reinsurance uptake in the region. That is the opinion of Malcolm Steingold, CEO of Aon Benfield for Asia Pacific, Matt FitzGerald, managing director, reinsurance, Arthur J. Gallagher and James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International, who echoed similar views.   27 November 2013
Insurance
Enstar Group, the Bermuda-based company that acquires and manages insurance and reinsurance companies in run-off and Stone Point Capital, a financial services-focused private equity firm, have completed the previously announced acquisition of Atrium Underwriting Group from Arden Holdings.   25 November 2013
News
Gulf Reinsurance (Gulf Re) has appointed Christian Vogel as chief executive officer. Vogel, who now serves as chief underwriting officer at Gulf Re, takes over from Michael Gertsch who is stepping down to relocate to Switzerland. The new appointment is effective December 1 2013.   21 November 2013
Reinsurance
Latin American economies have performed well in recent years and the region is a developing market with similar challenges to those in other emerging markets with healthy growth, says Peter Emblin, managing director, Latin America, Middle East & Africa and head of casualty & specialty property treaty of Aspen Re.   20 November 2013
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Argo Group International Holdings, an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products, has promoted Matthew Wilken to president of Argo Re. In his new role, Wilken will oversee the company’s property catastrophe reinsurance operations based in Bermuda.   20 November 2013
News
As much as another $100 billion in alternative capital could enter the reinsurance markets in the next five years with the affect this will have on the market being a question of how it is managed.   20 November 2013
Insurance
They may have been a little slow on the uptake, but re/insurers are now embracing social media with gusto. Intelligent Insurer investigates how companies are using these new forms of media and communications to their advantage.   19 November 2013
Insurance
The renewable energy sector is growing quickly, attracting new competitors. But only companies with the attributes of expertise and the ability to write big lines will win in the long term, says Michael Bernay of PER se   19 November 2013
Insurance
Research carried out by GR-NEAM has shown an inverse relationship between financial strength ratings and VaR, but the sheer size of a company also plays its part, says Dr Jim Bachman.   19 November 2013
Reinsurance
As capacity available to cover peak US catastrophe risks reaches saturation point, many believe that alternative capacity will increasingly allow the industry to take on different risks—some of which have traditionally been covered by governments.   19 November 2013

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