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News about the legacy insurance and reinsurance market, where legacy liabilities are run-off, transferred or acquired in legacy transactions, allowing their original holders or underwriters to achieve finality on those books of business.
R&Q on track to substantially exceed profit expectations in 2018
20th September 2018
Specialist non-life insurance and reinsurance investor, legacy or run-off transaction service provider and underwriting manager, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q), has reported that its first-half 2018 pre-tax profits increased by 40% year-on-year, with full-year profits expected to "substantially exceed market expectations". The firm's solid performance in the first-half of the ... Read the full article
James Halley named Group CFO of DARAG
16th August 2018
Legacy acquirer DARAG has announced the appointment of James Halley as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective September 3rd, 2018. Halley replaces Mike Trotman, whose role was to deliver a recently completed €260 million capital raise with Aleph Capital Partners and Crestview Partners, and follows the appointment of Tom Booth as CEO. He ... Read the full article
R&Q hires Darren Bailey to develop run-off and legacy business
15th August 2018
Randall & Quilter (R&Q) has added Darren Bailey to its Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Business Development team, where he will be tasked with helping to develop the company’s run-off and legacy transactions. Bailey will develop solutions that support R&Q’s innovative approach to the legacy insurance and reinsurance investments sector, and which ... Read the full article
DARAG forms joint venture with SOBC, announces first U.S acquisition
13th August 2018
European legacy acquirer DARAG has announced the formation a joint venture with run-off specialist SOBC Sandell, to facilitate an expansion into the U.S and Bermuda/Caribbean run-off markets. Concurrently, SOBC DARAG has confirmed the acquisition of Peachtree Casualty Insurance Company - a Florida-domiciled non-standard auto insurer in run-off - expected to close ... Read the full article
CNO secures reinsurance from Wilton Re on long-term care policies block
2nd August 2018
Bankers Life and Casualty Company, a subsidiary of CNO Financial Group, has secured reinsurance on its long-term care policies written prior to 2003, with reserves of approximately $2.7 billion, through 100% indemnity coinsurance. Wilton Re, a U.S life re/insurer that specialises in the acquisition of in-force portfolios, has agreed to take ... Read the full article
AIG partners with Carlyle Group to build DSA Re into a standalone reinsurer
1st August 2018
American International Group (AIG) has entered into a strategic partnership with The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager, to build AIG’s recently established Bermudian legacy reinsurance platform, DSA Re, into a standalone provider of reinsurance. DSA Re was launched by AIG in February 2018 as a composite reinsurer of ... Read the full article
DARAG secures €260mn equity funding for growth plans
30th July 2018
European legacy acquirer DARAG has secured equity funding of up to €230 million (US $269 million) from Aleph Capital and Crestview Partners in support of its global growth plans. DARAG said the capital commitment follows a period of significant strategic development for the company, during which it grew substantially in the ... Read the full article
Opioid lawsuits not comparable to asbestos: W.R. Berkley CEO
27th July 2018
W.R. Berkley’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Robert Berkley has said that prescription opioid drugs, which have come under scrutiny this year following a series of lawsuits against pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S, are not comparable to asbestos from a re/insurance point of view. “As far as an asbestos analogy, I think ... Read the full article
AXA’s legacy arm acquires majority stake in Emirates Re
17th July 2018
Specialist run-off acquirer and manager AXA Liabilities Managers has signed its 19th acquisition on the external market with the purchase of a majority stake in Dubai-headquartered Emirates Re. “We are delighted to pursue our external development with the acquisition of Emirates Re,” said Sylvain Villeroy de Galhau, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ... Read the full article
Legacy long-term care blocks remain top concern for life insurers: Moodys
22nd June 2018
Life insurers’ exposure to older legacy blocks of long-term care (LTC) insurance remains a top credit concern for the industry, particularly as LTC actuarial assumption reviews approach, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report. Actuarial assumption reviews for LTC insurance, which provides financial support for individuals unable to care for ... Read the full article
Monument Re acquires €500m run-off portfolio from Metlife Europe DAC
21st June 2018
Bermudian reinsurer Monument Re has announced the acquisition of a run-off portfolio consisting of linked and traditional life insurance business from Ireland-domiciled Metlife Europe DAC. Monument Re is to act as a reinsurance vehicle for the deal initially, with the risk portfolio ultimately set to be transferred to its subsidiary Laguna ... Read the full article
U.S. life insurers to continue shedding legacy business throughout 2018, Moody’s
11th June 2018
A new report by Moody’s Investors Service has shown that legacy blocks of annuity, life, and employee benefits business are set to be further divested by life insurers in the U.S. with a desire to focus on value optimisation amid modestly favourable economic and market fundamentals. Moody's Vice President Laura Bazer ... Read the full article
DARAG and New Nordic conduct first transaction under new partnership
14th May 2018
DARAG, the European legacy acquirer, and New Nordic Advisors, a London-based investment management company, are to conduct their first transaction following the formation of a strategic partnership in March 2018. This first transaction will see the partners acquire two portfolios of Qudos Insurance A/S, which New Nordic gained control of ... Read the full article
Compre appoints QBE’s Simon Hawkins as COO
11th May 2018
Compre, the independent European re/insurance legacy acquirer, has announced that QBE’s Simon Hawkins is to join the company as Group Chief Operating Officer (COO). Hawkins is currently Group Head of Retrospective Solutions at QBE, and is expected to take up his new position at Compre in the third quarter of 2018, ... Read the full article
Catalina reinsures U.S. P&C legacy portfolio for Arch
24th April 2018
Bermuda domiciled insurer and reinsurer, Arch Reinsurance Ltd. (Arch) has entered into a reinsurance transaction with Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd subsidiary, Catalina General Insurance Ltd (Catalina), which sees the latter assume a portfolio of U.S. property & casualty (P&C) liabilities in run-off from Arch. The U.S. P&C legacy portfolio assumed by ... Read the full article
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