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Insurance
Centene Corporation and WellCare, two big players in the US government-sponsored health insurance programme, have announced that they are merging in a deal worth $17.3 billion. 28 March 2019
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Global reinsurers’ returns are expected to barely cover capital costs in 2018 and 2019 and the current stable outlook on the global property/casualty reinsurance sector would likely change to negative if the industry's profitability sustainably fell below its cost of capital, S&P Global Ratings warned in a report. 4 September 2018
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Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook for the global reinsurance sector to stable from negative, on the belief that earnings have settled at a "new normal". 4 September 2018
Insurance
Recent catastrophe events in Asia are likely to stabilise rates in the upcoming renewals and make any significant rate reductions unlikely, Soeren Soltysiak, chief underwriting officer, treaty, Asia Capital Reinsurance Group, told SIRC Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Cyber insurance penetration is low in Asia, but there is great opportunity to introduce cyber products at a local level and build them out from there, Jonathan Ranger, chief executive officer of Criterion Underwriting, told SIRC Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Catastrophe losses fail to stop “strong” net income and core earnings in 2018 for The Hartford, said its chairman and CEO Christopher Swift in the firm’s year end results. 5 February 2019
Insurance
US-based Hartford Financial Services Group has unveiled a new operating model and organisational structure that will be effective once it has finalised its acquisition of the Navigators Group. 4 February 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Singapore is looking to establish itself as an insurance-linked securities (ILS) hub in Asia to take advantage of rising market demand, George Attard, chief executive officer Asia for Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business, told SIRC Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Munich Re is observing growing demand for new solutions and services in Asia-Pacific, ranging from capital management optimisation to new product development, Hermann Pohlchristoph, member of the board of management of Munich Re, told SIRC Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Specialty re/insurance provider Lancashire Holdings (LHL) has appointed James Irvine as the new chief underwriting officer (CUO) for Lancashire Insurance Company in Bermuda. 10 September 2018
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