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Hiscox
Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda. Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 13 countries and 32 offices, as of 2025.
The Hiscox Re & ILS division underwrites reinsurance opportunities on a global basis and also provides third-party capital capabilities.
Read our Hiscox insurance or reinsurance news and analysis below.
Hiscox promotes Mike Williams to Managing Director, Guernsey
22nd February 2022
Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Mike Williams to the role of Managing Director, Hiscox Guernsey, succeeding Steve Camm who will continue as a Non Executive Director. Williams who is currently the company’s Divisional Director of Crisis Management, will be now be based in Guernsey. He currently leads an existing team of underwriting ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Jon Dye as CEO, UK
17th February 2022
Specialist global insurer and reinsurer, Hiscox, has appointed Jon Dye as its new UK Chief Executive Officer (CEO), where he will be responsible for leading the firm's flagship retail business in the region. Dye has held a number of senior roles within the industry, most recently as CEO of Allianz UK ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Alannah Paul as VP, Cyber and Technology Product Head
3rd February 2022
Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Alannah Paul as Vice President, Cyber and Technology Product Head, in the US, where she will be based in Los Angeles, California, and report to Doug Karpp, Senior Vice President, Head of Specialty Risks in the US. In her new role, Paul will focus on continuously ... Read the full article
Berenberg positive on London market in 2022
25th January 2022
Berenberg says that it remains positive about the London market, despite an elevated risk environment. Citing the risk factors of property reinsurance from climate change and claims inflation, casualty arising from ongoing social inflation, and cyber due to the increase in ransomware attacks, the bank said it remained positive despite investor ... Read the full article
BoA predicts strong numbers for European reinsurers
24th January 2022
Bank of America (BoA) has said that reinsurers in Europe should post strong last-quarter numbers for 2021, saying that figures for that period may be higher than expected. The bank said it believes that a strong Q4 2021 will contrast well with the same period of the year before, which was ... Read the full article
Hiscox Re & ILS names MS Amlin’s Matthew Wilken as CUO
6th January 2022
Specialist re/insurer Hiscox has announced the appointment of Matthew Wilken, previously of MS Amlin, as the new Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for Hiscox Re & ILS, effective January 10th, 2022. Based in Bermuda, Wilken is set to become a member of the Hiscox Re & ILS Executive team and will report ... Read the full article
Paul Cooper returns to Hiscox as Group CFO
21st December 2021
Specialist insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has announced the appointment of Paul Cooper as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), subject to regulatory approval. Currently, Cooper serves as Interim CFO at M&G Plc, a FTSE 100 asset manager and life insurance company. In this role, he is responsible for the planning, ... Read the full article
Hiscox to expand RMS partnership
8th December 2021
Specialist global insurer Hiscox is working with RMS on extending and increasing use of the cat modeller's Location Intelligence API technology. The tech is designed to improve customer experience on a coverholder level, while also providing market-leading modelling data to enable high-resolution, location-level hazard, risk, and loss metrics. RMS Location Intelligence also ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Steven Pearsall as D&O Line Underwriter
29th November 2021
Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed Steven Pearsall as D&O Line Underwriter within its London Market business. Pearsall brings over 20 years’ experience in the insurance market including underwriting roles for AIG and, most recently, The Hartford where he was Head of Financial Lines within their London Market division. As such, he ... Read the full article
Hiscox adds Donna DeMaio as Non-Exec Director
23rd November 2021
Specialist insurer Hiscox has announced the appointment of Donna DeMaio as Independent Non Executive Director, subject to regulatory approval. DeMaio will take over as chair of the Hiscox Audit Committee, succeeding outgoing chair Caroline Foulger who is set to retire at the Annual General Meeting in 2022 after a nine-year term ... Read the full article
Hiscox hires Buchanan as London market casualty Director
19th November 2021
Hiscox, the specialist global insurer, has appointed Colin Buchanan as the new Divisional Director of Casualty for its London Market business, effective November 22nd. Reporting to Paul Lawrence, Chief Underwriting Officer at Hiscox London Market, Buchanan joins from Starr where he was Director and Head of International Casualty. He has over 35 ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Liz Breeze as interim Group CFO
18th November 2021
Global specialist insurer and reinsurer, Hiscox, has announced that the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of its reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit, Liz Breeze, will take over as interim CFO of the Group. Breeze's appointment remains subject to regulatory approval, and she will assume her new role while the company continues ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Aspen’s Helen Rose as CFO of Hiscox London Market & HSL
5th August 2021
Specialist insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has announced that from February of next year, Helen Rose will serve as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hiscox London Market and Hiscox Syndicates Limited (HSL). Based in London, Rose will sit on the Hiscox London Market leadership team, acting as a strategic and ... Read the full article
Hiscox reports 93.1% combined ratio as reinsurance returns to profit in H1
3rd August 2021
Insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has announced a turnaround of its financial performance for the first half of 2021, as the carrier's pre-tax profit reached $133.4 million, compared with a loss of almost $140 million for the same period last year. At the halfway stage of last year, Hiscox reported reserves ... Read the full article
Aki Hussain to succeed Bronek Masojada as Hiscox Group CEO
22nd July 2021
Global insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has announced that its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bronek Masojada, will be retiring from the company at the end of the year and will be succeeded by Aki Hussain, effective January 2022. Hussain joined Hiscox in 2016 and currently serves as the company's Chief Financial Officer ... Read the full article
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