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Flood risk modeller JBA Risk Management has released its Sri Lanka flood model on Simplitium’s ModEx platform. The initiative aims to broaden accessibility to the Sri Lanka model for both the insurers and the wider Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) community. 20 February 2019
Insurance
AM Best has determined that Sirius is sufficiently independent of parent company China Minsheng Investment Group (CMIG) to be unaffected by reported liquidity issues at the Chinese company. 18 February 2019
Insurance
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings (RenRe) has appointed Cythnia Trudell to serve as an independent director of the company, following the retirement of Edward Zore. 8 February 2019
Insurance
Efforts by Lloyd’s of London to transform the market from a predominantly paper-based system to a digital one have shown “significant” progress in the final quarter of 2018, figures show. 5 February 2019
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RenaissanceRe’s gross written premiums jumped by nearly 20 percent in 2018 – but its profits dipped mainly on the back of high levels of claims from the record-breaking wildfires in California for a second consecutive year. 30 January 2019
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AIG's insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit AlphaCat Managers has completed a $5 million private catastrophe bond transaction with Brazilian reinsurer Terra Brasis Re. 28 January 2019
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Bermuda-based Langhorne Re, a global reinsurer targeting large in-force life and annuity blocks, has hired Marvin Pestcoe as its new executive chair and chief executive officer (CEO) from PartnerRe. 25 January 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
The outlook for the non-life reinsurance sector is improving as prices are expected to rebound in 2019 following the sector’s second consecutive year of above-average losses. 15 January 2019
Insurance
Albert Benchimol, chief executive of AXIS Capital, will serve as the chair of the Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers (ABIR) for 2019; Marc Grandisson, CEO of Arch Capital joins as deputy chair and Kean Driscoll, CEO of Validus Reinsurance, as second deputy chair. 8 January 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a+” to Bermuda-based Vermeer Reinsurance, a property catastrophe reinsurer that has recently been launched by RenaissanceRe and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM. 20 December 2018
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