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AIG Returns to CLO Market for First Sale Since 2008 Financial Crisis
American International Group Inc. has returned to the red-hot collateralized loan obligation market as an asset manager with its first sale since the financial crisis. The $500 million transaction is ...
Liberty Mutual Forms $1B Risk-Sharing Deal with OPIC, Furthering Diversification Strategy
Liberty Mutual Insurance has formed a $1 billion risk-sharing agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), the U.S. government's development finance institution, which furthers the ...
Ironshore Bermuda Rebranded as Liberty Specialty Markets; Horton to Lead
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is integrating its Ironshore Bermuda businesses and brands into a single entity called Liberty Specialty Markets Bermuda. The ...
Flood Insurance, Terrorism Cover, FIO Will Be on the 2019 P/C Congressional Agenda
Reform and long-term renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program will be high on the property/casualty insurance industry's agenda when the new Congress begins its work in January 2019. Congress ...
Carriers Will Increasingly Turn to the Cloud in 2019: Deloitte Prediction
Insurers are poised to increasingly embrace the cloud and related technologies in 2019, according to predictions Deloitte makes in a new report. Deloitte argues that for the insurance industry, an ...
Applied Systems, Others Pursue Risky Practice of Acquiring Incremental Debt
First the companies tapped the loan market. Not long after that, they came back for more. Corporations like Bausch Health Cos., a drugmaker, telecom provider Sprint Corp. and Applied Systems Inc., an ...
Carrier Predictive Analytics Initiatives: Telling a Clear Story to Agents
This is the fifth in a series of articles by Valen Analytics looking at the hurdles that insurers must overcome to effectively implement and gain value from data analytics programs. Using technology ...
The Latest Launches From PURE and Ironshore
The PURE Group of Insurance Companies is beefing up the protection it offers for jewelry theft from the home. Ironshore's Environmental unit has enhanced its Contractors Environmental Legal Liability ...