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Insurance
Updates have been made to the treatment of securitisations under Solvency II. John Loughrey of GR-NEAM examines the implications for insurers. 5 May 2015
News
Pool Re, the mutual reinsurer that provides terrorism cover for commercial property in the UK, has been granted permission by the UK Treasury to purchase external retrocession cover. 19 November 2014
Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway has posted record profits for the second quarter tied to a jump in investment gains. 4 August 2014
Insurance
An increase in foreign exchange volatility in the second quarter of 2016, enhanced further by the surprising result of the UK’s EU referendum vote, has distorted the performance of re/insurance companies during the period. Making more use of hedging for foreign exchange risk could ease such distorting effects from companies’ profit and loss accounts, experts claim. 26 August 2016
Reinsurance
Re/insurers’ approach to their investment portfolios varies significantly depending on their position in the market and backers. They are increasingly being forced to take a more holistic approach to this part of the business and also consider the wider implications of how their cash is invested. Intelligent Insurer investigates. 3 July 2019
Insurance
The US state insurance regulator National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is asking for clarifications on the negotiated covered agreement between the EU and the US which removes collateral and local presence requirements for reinsurers from the opposite side of the Atlantic, and suggested that the agreement might have to be renegotiated. 17 March 2017
Insurance
Endurance Specialty has terminated its offer to acquire Aspen Insurance. It blamed its withdrawal on Bermuda’s corporate governance laws and an unwillingness of Aspen's shareholders to take a stand against what it called the defensive self-preservation tactics of the Aspen board. 31 July 2014
News
Q-Re has appointment Michael Gertsch as global head of facultative, effective February 1 2014. 29 November 2013
Insurance
The UK saw the cost of fraudulent insurance claims rise to a record £1.3 billion in 2013, an increase of 18 percent on the previous year. 2 June 2014
Insurance
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) has posted a disappointing set of results for the first quarter of 2014, which its chief executive admitted were below expectations. 24 April 2015
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