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Insurance
London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker Ed is to be acquired by BGC Partners, a global brokerage and financial technology company. 29 October 2018
Insurance
American International Group (AIG) has appointed Peter Bilsby as global head of specialty. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Munich Re has partnered with Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator and corporate innovation platform, to collaborate with emerging insurtech startups in China. 29 October 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 US re/insurance market is relatively stable and in good health as the industry gathers for the PCI conference in Miami this week—but carriers have one eye on cat losses and another on innovation and insurtech, Stefan Holzberger, chief rating officer at AM Best, told PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers increasingly want their reinsurance to potentially give them a competitive advantage—and they expect their reinsurance brokers to innovate to achieve this, Mike Schnur, partner, TigerRisk Partners, told PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
US homeowners’ direct written premiums increased from $91 billion in 2016, to $94 billion in 2017, and could reach $96 billion in 2018 given rate activity through September, according to Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions’ annual Homeowners’ ROE Outlook report. 29 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The prevalence of alternative capital meant the industry’s response to the 2017 losses was very different from the past, with the new capital that entered the industry behaving in a way that was transactional and short-term—and almost desperate in some instances. 28 October 2018
Insurance
AmTrust at Lloyd’s (ATL) has appointed Lucy Forcey as senior underwriter of North American property catastrophe treaty, a new line of business for ATL Syndicate 1861. 26 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital has experienced lower catastrophe losses in the third quarter of 2018, improving the combined ratio in both the insurance and reinsurance segments and allowing the group to return to profit. 25 October 2018
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