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Bushfire losses will dent earnings, but insurers are well placed, says AM Best
28th January 2020
The current fire season in Australia is expected to hit the full-year earnings and loss ratios of the region's direct insurance companies, however, non-life insurers in the country are well placed to withstand the record level of losses from the ongoing series of devastating fires, according to A.M. Best. As of ... Read the full article
Swiss Re to exceed large loss budget, FY19E income revised down: JP Morgan
28th January 2020
A "noisy" period for catastrophe events is expected to see global reinsurance giant Swiss Re exceed its large losses budget in both Q4 and full-year 2019, which, combined with other factors has seen analysts at JP Morgan reduce their full-year 2019 net income for the reinsurer by 20%. The Switzerland-based reinsurer ... Read the full article
Reinsurance capacity down at political risk renewals: Willis Re
28th January 2020
A decline in reinsurance capacity has helped to trigger price hardening in some quarters of the political risk and trade credit market at the January renewals, according Willis Re. The broker noted that, while there remains an abundance of headline insurance capacity in the political risk space, actual capacity is down ... Read the full article
Three in race to buy AXA’s €1bn-rated Eastern Europe operations, reports
28th January 2020
There are currently three bidders in the running to secure the €1 billion-rated Central and Eastern Europe business operations of French insurance and investment giant AXA, according to a Bloomberg insider. Only the Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA and Austrian insurers Vienna Insurance Group and Uniqa Insurance Group are supposedly still ... Read the full article
PIC announces £750m capital raise, posts record business for 2019
28th January 2020
Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), the specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds, has announced plans to issue up to £750 million of new equity to support growth off the back of detailing its performance in 2019. PIC has described the pension risk transfer market as “exceptionally buoyant” and says it exceeded ... Read the full article
Risk Strategies promotes Hoffman, Smith to EVP of healthcare practice
28th January 2020
US insurance broker and risk management firm Risk Strategies has promoted Tracy Hoffman and Matthew Smith to executive vice president of its National Health Care Practice. Both Hoffman and Smith previously served as senior vice president within the organisation. In addition to her current responsibilities, Hoffman will work alongside managing director Riggs ... Read the full article
Brown & Brown’s organic revenues up in Q4 & full-year 2019
28th January 2020
Insurance brokerage Brown & Brown, Inc. has reported an increase in revenues for both the fourth-quarter and full-year 2019, of $579 million and $2.4 billion, respectively. Reported revenues are under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and represent growth of 13.8% and 18.8% for Q4 and the full-year, respectively, when compared ... Read the full article
Swiss Re CorSo names Head of Casualty & FinPro North America
28th January 2020
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions (Swiss Re CorSo), the commercial insurance arm of reinsurer Swiss Re, has named Laura Coppola as Head of Casualty & FinPro North America, effective January 27th, 2020. Based in New York, Coppola takes over responsibility for the company's Financial and Professional Liability (FinPro) operation in the U.S. ... Read the full article
Finance is a “critical lever” to climate transformation: Swiss Re’s Mumenthaler
28th January 2020
Swiss Re CEO Christian Mumenthaler has argued that finance – and reinsurance in particular – is a “critical lever” to achieving the kind of global transformation necessary to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Writing in an article for the World Economic Forum (WEF), Mumenthaler expressed concern about the lack of ... Read the full article
Aston Lark acquires Exeter-based broker, Isca Barum
28th January 2020
Aston Lark, a Goldman Sachs-backed chartered insurance broker, has acquired Exeter, UK-based independent brokerage, Isca Barum Insurance Brokers. The acquisition of Isca Barum, a broker offering a full suite of insurance services to corporate and private clients across the UK, is Aston Lark's first acquisition of the year. The firm has a ... Read the full article
CRe Nigeria shares delisted as restructure moves forwards
28th January 2020
Pan-African reinsurer Continental Reinsurance (CRe Nigeria) has taken a step forward in its ongoing restructuring efforts with the delisting of its shares from The Nigerian Stock Exchange. This will now prevent trading in the company’s shares beyond the effective date of the scheme of arrangement, at which point the firm’s investment ... Read the full article
Despite slowdown, alternative capital remains integral to reinsurance: S&P
27th January 2020
The volume of alternative, or third-party capital in the global reinsurance market declined in 9M 2019 for the first time in more than a decade, but despite this, analysts at S&P Global Ratings have said that it is still an integral part of the marketplace. At $93 billion, the volume of ... Read the full article
Everest targets smaller law firms via new program with Embroker
27th January 2020
Everest Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Everest Re Group, Ltd., has announced plans to offer an online Lawyers' Professional Liability program via a new partnership with insurance brokerage, Embroker. The new online program is for law firms with up to ten employed attorneys, and, through Embroker's digitized platform, ... Read the full article
Beazley adds Tokio Marine healthcare underwriter to LA office
27th January 2020
Specialist insurer Beazley has announced the appointment of Justin Sanches as an underwriter within the firm’s US healthcare liability team. Joining Beazley’s Los Angeles office, Sanches will underwrite a range of global miscellaneous medical and life sciences risks for middle market and large US-domiciled healthcare providers. He joins from Tokio Marine HCC ... Read the full article
Aegis General partners with Homesite Insurance Group
27th January 2020
Aegis General Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of K2 Insurance Services, has announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Homesite Underwriting Managers, the program business unit of Homesite Insurance Group. Aegis and Homesite explained that the program administration partnership was based on foundation of common core values and would open up ... Read the full article
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