Leadership & Strategy
XL Group, Stone Point Capital Form Joint Investment Manager
XL Group and private equity firm Stone Point Capital LLC announced the formation of a new Bermuda-based company to act as an investment manager in insurance-linked securities and other reinsurance ...
RenaissanceRe Expands Global Re Operations By Launching U.S. Platform
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the formation of RenaissanceRe Underwriting Managers U.S. LLC, a specialty reinsurance agency based in Connecticut, on Thursday. The agency will support the ...
Commercial Lines Rate Increases Slowed in Q2: The Council
Commercial property/casualty pricing continued to gently creep upwards in the second quarter, however signs of some moderating of increases also surfaced. The Council of Insurance Agents & ...
ACE CEO Greenberg Cautions on Wall Street Draining Reinsurance Pond
ACE Limited Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg said the influx of Wall Street capital into the reinsurance industry is pressuring rates and that he is prepared to cut sales of backstop coverage. ...
ACE CEO Greenberg Looks to Mexico to Grow as Brazil Slows
Evan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Ace Ltd., said the insurer is looking beyond Latin America's largest economy as he seeks growth in the region. "It's obviously slowed down a lot in ...
Old-Fashioned Regulators Miss What’s New in Finance
Is the financial system any safer now than in 2008? There's been some progress but less than you might think. I argued last week that regulators should put in place much tougher bank capital ...
Deal Drought Raises The Pressure On Private Equity
Buyout firms have a record level of expiring funds this year, raising the prospect that many will have to ask investors for more time to do deals or not use the money at all. Advisory firm Triago ...
Is Travelers’ Price-Cutting a Sign Rate Increases Have Peaked?
Travelers Cos. Inc. said it would cut jobs and reduce prices of auto insurance, steps investors took as an indication that rates had risen too far and competition was increasing. The company's shares ...