Boardroom Agenda
Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Closes ‘Most Significant’ Deal Yet: $4.9B Allied World Acquisition
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Toronto-based investment and insurance company, has successfully completed its acquisition of Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings, for $4.9 billion – marking ...
Swiss Re Switches $130B in Liquid Assets to Track Ethical Indices
Swiss Re is switching the entire $130 billion it holds in liquid assets to track ethical indices, the latest move towards principled investments by the insurance industry. The world's second-largest ...
Recently we explored how specialty insurance markets emerge and the signals that help MGAs distinguish a lasting opportunity from temporary...
New AIG Global COO Zaffino Gets Initial Pay Package Worth Over $8.5M
American International Group's new Global Chief Operating Officer Peter Zaffino starts his tenure at the struggling insurer with an initial pay package worth more than $8.5 million, according to a ...
AXIS Will Grab Lloyd’s Specialty Insurer/Reinsurer Novae for $604M
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced it is acquiring Novae Group plc, a specialty insurer and reinsurer that operates through Lloyd's of London. "The US$604 million transaction adds scale and breadth ...
Executives On The Move at Fidelis, Zurich, Lloyds and Willis Re
Fidelis Insurance disclosed it is hiring a former Hiscox Re executive to help lead a new effort focused on niche specialty excess of loss business. Lloyd's has a new deputy chairperson. Willis Re ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Will Become Bank of America’s Biggest Shareholder
Warren Buffett's company will become the biggest shareholder in Bank of America Corp, after Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday invoked its right to acquire 700 million shares of the second-largest U.S. ...
Icahn Appears Ready to Give AIG CEO Duperreault a Chance
Billionaire Carl Icahn, one of the largest investors in American International Group Inc., is easing off his demands for a breakup of the insurer after the company sold assets and brought on a new ...
Wells Fargo Selling Commercial Insurance Business to USI Insurance
Wells Fargo is selling its commercial insurance business to national brokerage USI Insurance Services. USI said it has agreed to acquire Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, which includes commercial ...