Investment Officers
P/C Insurance M&A Is Growing Rapidly With No Sign of Letting Up
Clyde & Co. and A.M. Best quell any remaining doubts about the return and acceleration of high-profile insurance/reinsurance M&A deals in two new reports. What's more, while transactions are ...
Alibaba Invests $188M in Cathay Financial’s Insurance Division
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s finance arm is strengthening its foothold in the insurance business with plans to invest about 1.2 billion yuan ($188 million) in a Chinese unit of Cathay Financial ...
Want to Retire at 65? (Many People Can) Forget About It
Approximately 60 percent of workers won't be able to maintain their living standards if they retire at age 65 because they are woefully behind in saving the money they'll need, a new Aon Hewitt ...
Amlin’s Pending Acquisition Puts Spotlight on 4 Remaining Publicly Traded Lloyd’s Insurers
Amlin Plc's $5.3 billion takeover by a Japanese competitor has put the remaining four publicly traded Lloyd's of London insurers in the spotlight for a possible takeover. Beazley Plc, Hiscox Ltd., ...
RSA Selling Latin American Operations to Suramericana SA for $620M
RSA Insurance Group plc, which received a takeover approach from Zurich Insurance Group AG, agreed to sell its Latin American operations to Suramericana SA for about 403 million pounds ($620 million) ...
State Farm & Farmers Gain Ground in J.D.Power Small Biz Customer Satisfaction Ranking
Erie Insurance hit the top of the list of J.D. Power's latest small business commercial insurance study in terms of client satisfaction with their insurance policies. This is the third straight ...
Lloyd’s Casualty Reinsurance Underwriters Worry They Risk Repeating Historical Mistakes
Lloyd's international casualty reinsurance underwriters are running the risk of repeating the same mistakes that have placed the market in difficulty in the past, according to a new straw poll of ...
S&P: Reinsurance M&A Will Follow Berkshire Hathaway Model
Reinsurance M&A activity should continue well into 2016 as competitive pressures continue unabated, Standard & Poor's asserted in a new industry report. The ratings entity said that the ...