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Vantage Risk appoints AIG’s John Flannery to lead marketing & comms
2nd February 2023
Vantage Risk has announced the appointment of John Flannery as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, effective immediately. He joins from AIG, where he held various management positions, and brings more than 25 years of experience to Vantage. While at AIG, Flannery was tasked with leading global marketing, brand transformation, and communications, including ... Read the full article
AM Best affirms Vantage Group’s credit ratings
24th January 2023
AM Best has affirmed the credit Ratings of Vantage Risk Ltd. and Affiliates (Vantage Group) and has assigned them a positive outlook. The Group’s Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) reflect its balance sheet strength, which AM Best assesses as very strong, as ... Read the full article
Vantage Risk joins as Observer & Participant in the MLT Committee
19th December 2022
Bermudian reinsurer Vantage Risk has joined as the latest Observer Member and participant in the Medium and Long Term (MLT) Committee of the Berne Union. The reinsurer was admitted as a member following a presentation of their business to the Berne Union Annual General Meeting in Kigali and a vote among ... Read the full article
Vantage hires Peter Skerlj as Chief Risk Officer
8th November 2022
Bermuda-based re/insurer Vantage has announced the hiring and appointment of Peter Skerlj as its Chief Risk Officer. Skerlj will, said a statement, begin his new role in February, be based in Bermuda, and report to Greg Hendrick, the firm’s chief executive officer. In this new role, he will lead the further development ... Read the full article
Specialty opportunities in uncertain times: Vantage Risk’s McKeown
14th September 2022
While the world faces a growing array of macro and geopolitical challenges, the pressures these create can also provide opportunities, while some other chances for growth are being left on the table by incumbents, Chris McKeown of Vantage Risk believes. Chris McKeown, the Chief Executive, Reinsurance, ILS, and Innovation at still ... Read the full article
Re/insurance needs an “iconoclastic moment”, says Vantage’s McKeown
12th September 2022
The global insurance and reinsurance industry needs an “iconoclastic moment” on a similar scale to the introduction of catastrophe risk models in the 1990’s, if it is to ensure its long-term sustainability, Chris McKeown of re/insurer Vantage Risk has said. Speaking with Reinsurance News around the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous event in ... Read the full article
Vantage Risk names José Miranda as Risk Analytics Lead
4th March 2022
Recently launched Bermudian reinsurer Vantage Risk has appointed José Miranda as Risk Analytics Lead, where he will continue to be based in Bermuda. Miranda joins from Hannover Re where he held the role of Senior Catastrophe Analyst for just over a year. Within that role he oversaw catastrophe models and internal quoting ... Read the full article
Vantage kicks off 2022 with numerous appointments
10th January 2022
Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., which launched ahead of the January 1st, 2021, reinsurance renewals as a Bermudian specialty insurer and reinsurer, has welcomed a number of new colleagues to its ranks at the start of 2022. Established and led by industry veterans Dinos Iordanou as Non-Executive Chairman and Greg Hendrick as ... Read the full article
AM Best affirms Vantage despite “active” first year
6th December 2021
Global ratings agency AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "a-" (Excellent) of Vantage Risk Ltd. (Bermuda) and its affiliate, Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company (Chicago, IL). The ratings affirmation from AM Best comes despite an active first year of ... Read the full article
Vantage hires AXA XL’s Blanco to lead insurance business as CEO
1st November 2021
Alex Blanco, formerly of AXA XL, has joined Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Insurance. In his new role, Blanco will be tasked with leading the growth and development of Vantage's insurance operation. He brings more than 25 years of industry experience across Professional ... Read the full article
Vantage takes QOMPLX’s Steve Smith as Head of Research & Development
11th October 2021
Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has made a key hire in the catastrophe modelling and research area, taking Steve Smith from QOMPLX as its new Head of Research & Development. Vantage continues to build-out an impressive team as it comes up to one-year since ... Read the full article
RenRe & Vantage back Tower Hill’s new reciprocal insurer
8th September 2021
Florida-based Tower Hill Insurance Group has announced the launch of a new reciprocal insurance entity called Tower Hill Insurance Exchange (THIE), which is backed by entities controlled by Gallatin Point Capital, Vantage Group Holdings, and RenaissanceRe. The new carrier launches with an initial capital commitment of more than USD 200 million ... Read the full article
Vantage launches Healthcare and Excess Casualty products
3rd September 2021
Vantage Group Holdings has introduced new product offerings in Healthcare and Excess Casualty. This announcement comes after Vantage previously announced it started offering products within within its Financial Lines and Professional Liability insurance. Vantage was established in late 2020 and began writing reinsurance risk on January 1, 2021, through its Bermuda ... Read the full article
Vantage continues build out of US operations with acquisition of surplus lines insurer
20th July 2021
Specialty re/insurer Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. has taken over an Illinois-based domestic surplus lines insurer licensed in 47 states and renamed it Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company, expanding its US business operations. Throughout Q2, Vantage made numerous senior underwriting appointments within financial lines, healthcare, excess casualty and political risk & credit. The ... Read the full article
Vantage’s excess and surplus (E&S) lines carrier gets rating
15th July 2021
AM Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and a long-term issuer credit rating of 'a-' (Excellent) to Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company (Vantage Risk) (Chicago, IL), along with a rating outlook of stable. Vantage Risk is a newly added member to Vantage Group Holdings and writes excess ... Read the full article
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