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Germany insurer Allianz has revealed an extensive investment programme to boost its presence across Africa. It has hired five new senior executives in the continent since the start of 2013 and the company is targeting Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, where it anticipates strong growth. 18 March 2013
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German reinsurer Hannover Re has announced that it intends to change its legal form to a European public limited company or Societas Europaea (SE). 14 March 2012
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Large reinsurance buyers are increasingly replacing mid-tier reinsurers on their panels with collateralised coverage or larger ILS deals while also retaining more risk – but they are also forming closer and deeper relationships with their bigger reinsurance partners. 28 February 2014
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Berkshire Hathaway has reported an underwriting profit for the 12th consecutive year. Its profit hit $2.7 billion in 2014. 2 March 2015
Insurance
There has been, and continues to be, significant growth potential across Asia in terms of large commercial risks and in growing the consumer insurance markets, believes Matt Fairfield, the founder and chief executive of ANV Holdings, which operates three syndicates at Lloyd’s, who is attending the EAIC this week. 2 November 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
Henning Ludolphs, managing director of retrocessions and capital markets at Hannover Re, talks indemnity vs parametric triggers in his first ILS blog. 27 April 2015
Insurance
Insurance industry groups including the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America have applauded new legislation that means the Federal Reserve can apply different capital standards to insurers compared with those applied to banks. 4 June 2014
Insurance
Brazil faces an increasing risk of terrorist attacks while the retail sector was the hardest part of the economy hit by such attacks last year, according to analysis by Aon Risk Solutions, which has released its annual Terrorism and Political Violence Map. 28 January 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
The insurance industry appears to be close to establishing a solution, likely to use a structure similar to that used in insurance-linked securities (ILS), which would mean much better insurance coverage for the Philippines. 22 January 2014
Insurance
In the October issue, Intelligent Insurer asked a range of companies to identify some of the challenges they see the insurance industry facing. Some of the answers were humdrum, others surprising. But they all share one thing—they will have to be faced by the market and then dealt with. Here are the second five of 10 challenges the industry must overcome. 14 December 2015
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