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AkinovA completes cyber parametric trade with Hiscox & GC
9th January 2020
AkinovA, the electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has completed its first cyber parametric instrument trade. Hiscox developed, structured and provided capital for this transaction, with Guy Carpenter (GC) acting as broker and PCS as the reporting agent. The deal was carried out electronically with regulatory oversight from ... Read the full article
Hiscox partners with Concirrus to drive digitalisation
8th January 2020
Hiscox London Market, one of the oldest Lloyd's of London syndicates, has entered into a partnership with InsurTech Concirrus in an effort to deliver progressive, analytics-based underwriting. Under the terms of this new multi-year deal, Hiscox is to embed Concirrus' behaviour-based data analytics platform, Quest Marine Hull. An announcement on the deal ... Read the full article
James Millard appointed Hiscox CIO
6th January 2020
Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed James Millard as the group’s Chief Investment Officer. Millard most recently served at Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), where he worked as co-head of Multi-Manager Strategies. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer at Skandia Investment Group until its merger with Old Mutual Asset Managers, where he became ... Read the full article
Hiscox set to drop out of FTSE 100
2nd December 2019
Specialist re/insurer Hiscox is set to drop from the FTSE 100 this week as ongoing claims arising from hurricane Dorian and typhoons Hagibis and Faxai continue to dent profitability. The insurer last month set aside $165 million to cover the aforementioned storms and have seen its share price fall 12% since ... Read the full article
Hiscox expands partnership with insurtech INSTANDA
28th November 2019
Specialist re/insurer Hiscox has expanded its partnership with INSTANDA, the cloud-based digital insurance platform. This enhanced partnership is designed to build critical distribution through the deployment of the INSTANDA platform and has been extended to manage both direct-to-consumer and broker products in four countries. This announcement follows the successful launch of Hiscox’s ... Read the full article
Optio enters political risk market, backed by Hiscox
20th November 2019
Optio Group, which is comprised of MGAs Ascent Underwriting, Cove Programs and broker Bay Risk Services, has announced the launch of a political political risk proposition for foreign direct investors (FDIs) in higher-risk markets. In addition to the standard political risk perils of expropriation, war and forced abandonment, Optio will provide ... Read the full article
Hiscox pulls out of casualty reinsurance
18th November 2019
Global specialist re/insurer Hiscox has announced its intention to cease writing casualty reinsurance business, due to “ongoing, challenging market conditions.” Concerns over issues such as pricing and reserving mean that the company no longer considers this business to be sustainable. Instead, its reinsurance division, Hiscox Re & ILS, will continue to focus ... Read the full article
Decision to support Lloyd’s Blueprint very easy. There is no choice: Robert Childs, Hiscox
8th November 2019
Hiscox Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Lloyd’s Robert Childs has explained how supporting the market's modernisation Blueprint was a given, considering its need to adapt. Childs, speaking yesterday in Bermuda at the PwC Insurance Summit, was asked about Lloyd's mission to become increasingly efficient and drive change through the insurance and ... Read the full article
Hiscox clarifies medium-term CR outlook for retail business
8th November 2019
Global specialist re/insurer Hiscox has released a statement clarifying the medium term outlook for the combined ratio of its primary retail insurance business, Hiscox Retail. Hiscox released its results for the first nine months of 2019 earlier this week, reporting growth across its entire business in 2019, with gross written ... Read the full article
Hiscox grows premiums 7% YTD, sees more rate firming ahead
4th November 2019
Hiscox Group has grown its overall business by more than 7% in 2019 so far, as the insurance and reinsurance company takes advantage of higher rates and looks forward to what it believes will be a third year of firming prices in the London market. Hiscox has experienced growth across its ... Read the full article
Hiscox illustrates threat of rising sea levels with FloodPlus AR app
24th October 2019
Specialist insurer Hiscox has developed a new app designed to illustrate the potential threat of global sea level rises. FloodPlus AR utilises Augmented Reality to demonstrate the impact a 2.4 meter sea level rise - an increase predicted by certain climate experts - would have on the Hudson County area of ... Read the full article
Hiscox selects IVANS Markets to tap independent agencies network
16th October 2019
Global specialist re/insurer Hiscox is set to expand its reach to independent agencies using IVANS Markets, which promises to provide access to a network of more than 32,000 agents. Leveraging the service from IVANS, a division of Applied Systems, Hiscox will market appetite details for its partner wholesalers, including Apogee, Braishfield ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Joanne Musselle Group Chief Underwriting Officer
5th September 2019
Global insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has appointed Joanne Musselle as its new Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), following the retirement of Richard Watson. She will assume the role at the end of the year and will join the Hiscox Ltd Board as an Executive Director in February 2020, subject to regulatory ... Read the full article
Hiscox Re & ILS announces leadership reshuffle
1st August 2019
Global re/insurer Hiscox has announced two new appointments within its Hiscox Re & ILS division, following the recently announced appointment of Megan McConnell as CUO, Hiscox USA. With McConnell relocating to Manhattan, Andrew Dolphin has been named as her successor as Director of Underwriting - London, subject to board and ... Read the full article
Hiscox names Megan McConnell CUO in the US
1st August 2019
Global insurer and reinsurer Hiscox has announced the appointment of Megan McConnell as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) in the US, based in New York and reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hiscox USA, Steve Langan. McConnell most recently served as the Director of Underwriting for Hiscox Re & ILS, having ... Read the full article