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The unsolicited offer made yesterday (Monday) by Endurance Speciality for Aspen Insurance could well represent just the start of a period of intense mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity for the reinsurance industry that some commentators have been forecasting for some time. 15 April 2014
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Too much of the dialogue around market conditions disproportionally emphasises the challenges facing global and US property-catastrophe business, and ignores the very different dynamics in other market and product lines, Michael Pickel, member of the executive board of E+S Rück, the German-focused subsidiary of Hannover Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
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Reinsurers should not underestimate the rapidly increasing sophistication of cedants in today’s market and the increasingly complex risk transfer and capital management solutions they are willing to explore, Denis Kessler, the chairman & chief executive officer of SCOR, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
Insurance
There remains a better than 50 percent chance that Endurance will succeed in acquiring Aspen Insurance, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), who made that conclusion after spending two days with senior executives from Endurance. 21 July 2014
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Barbican Group has launched subsidiary Castel Underwriting, a new club style MGA formation platform that provides underwriters with stable capacity and a fast-track route to creating their own businesses. 28 October 2013
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The marine reinsurance market experienced substantial rate increases at the 2013 1/1 renewals, following a difficult year and several large losses. This is the view of two of the world’s largest reinsurance brokers in January 2013 renewals reports. 4 January 2013
Insurance
Eighteen months since it walked away from a bidding war for PartnerRe, Axis Capital has completed a new deal with Novae. Albert Benchimol, chief executive of Axis Capital, explains to Intelligent Insurer why the company has never diverted from plan A, his view on third party capital and why he will sometimes send a client a cheque before a claim has been made. 20 October 2017
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Global reinsurers face further competition from third party capital according to AM Best’s latest report. 28 August 2013
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Soft market pressures, a prolonged low interest rate environment, low barriers to ILS capital entering the sector, the digital economy, tepid GDP growth… Hiscox Re’s Bill Lazzaro argues that how we respond to the current challenges in the reinsurance sector will define our future. 15 December 2016
Insurance
Swiss Re has revealed how it ‘stopped’ 23 business transactions going ahead last year because they failed to meet certain criteria around sustainability and corporate responsibility. A further 18 deals were temporarily halted until certain criteria could be met. 19 June 2013
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