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Insurance
Sonja Rottiers has been appointed as the CEO of Lloyd’s Brussels, replacing Vincent Vandendael who had been appointed to the post in May 2018. 20 December 2018
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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
Alternative Risk Transfer
A continued glut of capacity dampened rate increases in the recent June 1 renewals for Florida property-cat business. While rates did increase by 1.2 percent, the first rise in seven years, pricing remains 40 percent down on 2012, according to a new report by JLT Re. 4 June 2018
Insurance
Norway's Protector Forsikring, the insurer on the London Grenfell tower block that has been devastated by fire killing at least 80 people, has raised its expected gross claims from the tragedy to £50 million in its second quarter results report. 10 July 2017
Insurance
US-based Prosperity Life Insurance Group, a provider of protection, supplemental and asset accumulation products, has been bought by an investor group including hedge fund manager Elliott and insurance-focused private investment firm Wand Partners. 14 March 2018
Insurance
With its centenary just around the corner, reinsurance broker Holborn is enjoying almost unprecedented growth as US cedants seek a true alternative solution, the firm’s Frank Harrison tells PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
The year 2017 has been marked by an unusually strong hurricane season in the US but also a number of significant regulatory changes such as the Ogden discount in the UK with significant consequences for the motor re/insurance industry. Intelligent Insurer asked re/insurance executives what the most important moments/developments were in the re/insurance industry in 2017. 22 December 2017
News
The quietest US Atlantic hurricane season in decades will lead to a low double-digit fall in related catastrophe reinsurance pricing in the key 2014 renewals, says Fitch Ratings. 3 December 2013
Insurance
Texas-based US Risk Insurance Group, a specialty lines underwriting manager and property/casualty wholesale broker, has acquired IMS London American Brokerage and Underwriting Services. 10 July 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
Freddie Mac, the US government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, wants to increase the panel of reinsurers it works with over time to as many as 50—a move intended to ensure its credit risk transfer programme will remain stable and sustainable in the long term. 29 October 2018
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