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AXIS Re taps Gen Re's Arbuckle as new underwriting head for Canada

Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings has hired a senior executive from Gen Re to expand AXIS Re’s Canadian market business and establish new partnerships in the region.   30 January 2019

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Qatar Insurance Group appoints Group CEO

He has held various key positions within Qatar Insurance Group.   13 January 2020

Insurance

ArgoGlobal appoints new Asia chief underwriting officer

ArgoGlobal, the Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, has appointed Michael Scala as chief underwriting officer, Asia Pacific.   9 October 2018

Insurance

Pardus adds two non-exec directors amid £1.6m capital raising

Pardus, a London-based independent managing general agent (MGA), has completed a £1.6 million capital raising, which attracted a variety of new private investors into the business.   6 April 2016

Insurance

Start-up broker aims to boost diversity in insurance

Two industry stalwarts, formerly of Willis Re and Maxfield Risk Consulting, have teamed up to create a more diverse and technologically aligned insurance industry with the launch of a fresh thinking re/insurance broker.   6 February 2020

Insurance

Swiss Re merges European units' leadership with new appointment

Swiss Re has appointed Claudia Cordioli to lead its reinsurance business in Western and Southern Europe.   27 March 2018

Insurance

Arch Capital appoints new CEO

Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group (ACGL) has promoted president and chief operating officer (COO) Marc Grandisson to the position of CEO, replacing Constantine Iordanou.   19 March 2018

Insurance

AM Best reports on Brexit and warns on intense competition and overcapacity in global reinsurance industry

Intense competition and overcapacity are among the biggest challenges for the global reinsurance industry. That was one of the key points in a presentation in Monte Carlo, given by rating agency AM Best, at which it also warned of some of the negative effects of Brexit.   9 September 2019

Insurance

Typhoons hit Japanese non-life market in 2018, Toa Re report finds

The Japanese non-life insurance market experienced a mixed year in 2018, according to a report from the underwriting and planning department of Toa Reinsurance.   29 October 2019

Insurance

Lemonade, Metromile, Root struggle to reach underwriting profits

The venture-backed full-stack US insurtech startups continued to show rapid premium growth in the second quarter of 2018 with moderately lower underwriting losses but they have yet to generate a sustainable loss ratio under 100 percent, according to “The Second Quarter in InsurTech Start-up Financials” by Matteo Carbone.   29 August 2018

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