M&A
What Analysts Expect in 2015: Lower Rates, More M&A, Underwriting Losses
Analysts seem to agree on a few things, at least, about what the property/casualty insurance industry can expect through the end of 2014 and into 2015. Reinsurance consolidation is coming, they say. ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Decides It Likes Cable
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc reported a $366 million stake in cable TV operator Charter Communications Inc in the second quarter, according to a regulatory filing made public on Thursday. ...
U.S. P/C Insurance M&A Gaining a Foreign Flavor
Insurance mergers and acquisitions often provide signs pointing to the direction where the industry is heading. Reading the signs today reveals a strong foreign element. In 2014 there has been a ...
P/C M&As Are Alive and Well—They’re Just Different
We hear and read that merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the property/casualty insurance industry is fading. Without a doubt, it isn't what it used to be. Deal transaction volume and values ...
AIG to Pay $305M for Ageas’ U.K. Life Protection Insurance Arm
American International Group said it will pay $305 million for the U.K. life protection insurance division of Belgium's Ageas Group. Assuming regulators sign off on the deal to by Ageas Protect Ltd, ...
Brazilian Investment Bank, Abu Dhabi Fund Partner on Ariel Re Takeover
Grupo BTG Pactual, Brazil's only publicly traded independent investment bank, is partnering with shareholder Abu Dhabi Investment Council to expand its reinsurance business, said Chief Executive ...
Endurance Gives Up on Bid to Buy Aspen
After three months of trying, Bermuda reinsurance company Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. has given up trying to acquire archrival Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. The final blow apparently happened ...
Analyst: Reinsurance M&A Winds Are Increasing
Shareholders from Aspen Insurance Holdings have a July 25 deadline to vote on a number of governance proposals that could boost Endurance Specialty Holdings' prospects for acquiring the Bermuda ...