Reinsurance News
News about American International Group (AIG), one of the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance groups.
Our news about AIG includes the companies financial results, new hires, product launches, affiliations and also coverage of its reinsurance operations Validus in Bermuda.
9th June 2021
American International Group, Inc. has announced the appointment of Quentin McMillan, who will join the company as Vice President, Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations, effective June 7, 2021. McMillan joins AIG from Marsh McLennan where he served as Senior Director, Investor Relations. Prior to Marsh McLennan, he worked for Keefe, ... Read the full article
27th May 2021
S&P Global Ratings has upgraded the issuer credit and financial strength ratings of Validus Re to reflect a revised view of its group status as core to its ultimate parent, AIG. Since being acquired in July 2018, Validus has been viewed as “highly strategically important” to AIG, but analysts now consider ... Read the full article
11th May 2021
Mark Lyons, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Peter Zaffino, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of American International Group (AIG) have explained that the global re/insurer anticipates a margin expansion throughout 2021 and into 2022. The margin expansion is the result of AIG’s favourable underwriting actions from favourable global market conditions, ... Read the full article
7th May 2021
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has reported net income of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2021, driven by an improved performance in both its General Insurance (GI) and Life and Retirement segments. Year-on-year, AIG's net income improved by roughly $2.2 billion from the $1.7 billion reported in Q1 2020. AIG ... Read the full article
30th March 2021
Global re/insurer American International Group (AIG) has appointed Claude Wade to the newly created role of Executive Vice President, Global Head of Operations and Chief Digital Officer. Based in New York, Wade will report to President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Peter Zaffino. Wade has over thirty years of operational strategy and ... Read the full article
25th March 2021
Global insurer and reinsurer AIG has promoted Elaine Rocha, Esq. to the newly created position of Global Chief Operating Officer (COO), Reinsurance. Rocha has been with AIG for 11 years, having joined in 2010 as Associate General Counsel and Vice President, Excess Casualty and Cat Excess. In 2014, she took on the ... Read the full article
17th March 2021
AIG Korea has added Ramzi Toubassy as its new Chief Executive Officer, according to reports from the Korea Times news outlet. Toubassy was formerly the chief executive of AmMetLife Insurance Berhad in Malaysia and will join the company April 1. He formerly served at companies such as Swiss Re, General Reinsurance and ... Read the full article
11th March 2021
Global re/insurer AIG has appointed Lisa Buckingham to the newly created role of Executive Vice President, Global Head of AIG Enterprise Design and Life & Retirement Separation Initiatives. Buckingham, who joins in April, will be based in New York and reports to President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Zaffino. She has over ... Read the full article
2nd March 2021
Global insurer and reinsurer AIG has announced the addition of James Cole to its Board of Directors, effective March 15th. Cole is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CE) of The Jasco Group, a New York City-based investment management firm. Previously, he spent approximately 15 years with the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen ... Read the full article
22nd February 2021
Global insurer and reinsurer AIG has renewed its worldwide property catastrophe reinsurance program for 2021, securing a reduced $2.05 billion of aggregate limit that is shared across regional towers. In comparison, the firm's 2020 property cat reinsurance renewal included $2.5 billion of aggregate limit shared across regional towers of the ... Read the full article
19th February 2021
Incoming AIG Chief Executive Peter Zaffino says his company is working "purposefully and with a sense of urgency on several fronts" related to a 19.9% sale of its Life and Retirement business. In a Q4 earnings call Zaffino said he was pleased with the level of interest quality of potential partners ... Read the full article
19th February 2021
Peter Zaffino, president and incoming Chief Executive Officer of AIG, has praised his firm for its 1/1 reinsurance renewal activity, particularly amid such a challenging market environment. AIG restructured its core placements in every major general insurance treaty. The company reduced the catastrophe per-occurrence attachment points in North America from $500 million ... Read the full article
17th February 2021
Global insurer and reinsurer AIG has reported a net loss of $60 million for the fourth-quarter of 2020 despite a 4% rise in General Insurance (GI) adjusted pre-tax income to $809 million for the period. The Q4 net loss compares with net income of $922 million for the same period in ... Read the full article
15th February 2021
Global insurer American International Group (AIG) has announced that Peter S. Zaffino is set to take over the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from Brian Duperreault, who will instead serve as Executive Chairman of the Board until the end of this year. Duperreault will hold this role through to December ... Read the full article
14th December 2020
AIG Life & Retirement, a division of global insurer AIG, has appointed its Chief Executive Officer of Individual Retirement business Todd Solash to an expanded role. Solash will now also be responsible for driving the division’s strategic agenda and ensuring continued innovation. He joined AIG in 2017 from AXA US, where he ... Read the full article
