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Maintaining a good relationship with the rating agencies is more important than ever for reinsurers. Rowena Potter, senior consultant with Litmus Analysis, offers 11 tips that will smooth the path to a better mutual understanding. 10 September 2017
Insurance
The board of directors of Brazil-based bank BTG Pactual, which launched insurance and reinsurance operations in 2013, has elected Persio Arida as executive chairman and John Huw Jenkins as vice chairman. 1 December 2015
Insurance
Liberty Mutual has agreed to acquire Ironshore – just over a year after Fosun International, China’s biggest conglomerate, acquired the remaining 80 percent stake in the Bermuda-based property/casualty insurer. 5 December 2016
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The RenaissanceRe (Ren Re)/Platinum Underwriters deal has split rating agency opinion, with some placing the reinsurer on ‘negative review’. 23 December 2014
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Admin Re, a closed life book consolidator owned by Swiss Re, is to buy Guardian Financial Services Europe from private equity company Cinven for £1.6 billion. 23 September 2015
Insurance
Prices plummeted in the first Lloyd’s capacity auction of 2014 for Names-backed Syndicates. Despite more capacity being tendered than in any auction since 2011, interest in bidding for it was limited. 6 October 2014
Insurance
Free trade environments for re/insurers are under threat from jurisdictions adopting more protectionist measures—but many such regimes may actually hurt the very economies they aim to protect. 31 October 2017
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Boosted by a slight hardening of rates on some lines and a relatively benign period of catastrophe activity, it seems many reinsurers have responded to the difficult investment environment by improving the profitability of their underwriting books. A number of reinsurers have posted healthy combined ratios for their 2012 results in recent weeks. 12 February 2013
Insurance
Despite significant expected losses in the third quarter from hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria and potential rate increases as a result, Lloyd’s is not planning to change the market’s overall exposure to natural catastrophes, Jon Hancock, Lloyd’s performance management director, told Baden-Baden Today. 25 October 2017
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The state-owned Russian National Reinsurance Company (RNRC) has shown more appetite for new business in its first year in business than expected, Nicola Rautmann, market executive Austria & Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at Swiss Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 25 October 2017
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