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Tower Group International has entered into an agreement to acquire American Safety Reinsurance (ASRe), the Bermuda-based reinsurance subsidiary of American Safety Insurance Holdings, from Fairfax Financial Holdings for some $59m. 4 June 2013
Insurance
In the winter of 2015-16 there were unprecedented levels of flooding across the north of the UK, with thousands of homes and businesses affected. Intelligent Insurer investigates the issues of modelling, flood defences and some possible implications for insurers. 23 February 2016
Insurance
The unsolicited offer made yesterday (Monday) by Endurance Speciality for Aspen Insurance could well represent just the start of a period of intense mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity for the reinsurance industry that some commentators have been forecasting for some time. 15 April 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
Tom Johansmeyer, AVP – Reinsurance Services, Marketing at ISO/Verisk Insurance Solutions takes a look at the cat bond lites, which are starting to play a big part in the ILS market. 21 January 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
The government has made significant steps towards enabling the UK to become a centre for insurance-linked securities (ILS) business, but the devil will be in the detail writes Andrew Holderness, Global Head of Corporate Insurance Group at Clyde & Co. 21 January 2016
Insurance
Reinsurers should not underestimate the rapidly increasing sophistication of cedants in today’s market and the increasingly complex risk transfer and capital management solutions they are willing to explore, Denis Kessler, the chairman & chief executive officer of SCOR, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
Insurance
Too much of the dialogue around market conditions disproportionally emphasises the challenges facing global and US property-catastrophe business, and ignores the very different dynamics in other market and product lines, Michael Pickel, member of the executive board of E+S Rück, the German-focused subsidiary of Hannover Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
Insurance
There remains a better than 50 percent chance that Endurance will succeed in acquiring Aspen Insurance, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), who made that conclusion after spending two days with senior executives from Endurance. 21 July 2014
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Barbican Group has launched subsidiary Castel Underwriting, a new club style MGA formation platform that provides underwriters with stable capacity and a fast-track route to creating their own businesses. 28 October 2013
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Global reinsurers face further competition from third party capital according to AM Best’s latest report. 28 August 2013
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