Emerging Markets
Pipeline Blast in China Exposes Urban Sprawl Risks
A Chinese oil pipeline punctured twice a week by oil thieves cleared a safety inspection just two months before a section of the line exploded and killed 62 people in November, sources at the ...
Investment into Emerging Markets to Fall in 2014: World Bank
Foreign direct investment into emerging markets should decline next year because of persistent concerns about the global economy, the World Bank's political risk insurance arm said on Thursday. For ...
Hard Market Will Come; Question Is When, Swiss Re Says
In its latest sigma report forecasting profits and premium growth for insurers over the next two years, Swiss Re says the eventuality of a hard market is a given—it's just a matter of when. ...
Five Insurers Bid for Citigroup Distribution Deal in Asia
Five insurers including MetLife Inc. and AIA Group Ltd. have submitted final bids to have their products distributed by Citigroup in Asia, a deal estimated to generate more than $10 billion in ...
Swiss Re Acquiring Stake in Brazil’s Sul America
Swiss Re Ltd., the world's second- largest reinsurer, agreed to buy an 11 percent stake in Sul America SA from ING Groep NV to expand in Brazil. The reinsurer will also purchase a 3.8 percent holding ...
Eastern Asia Underinsured for Floods, Typhoons: Munich Re
Insured losses from weather-related events in Eastern Asia amount to only about 10 percent of the $700 billion in total losses accumulated over the last three decades, according to an analysis by ...
RMS Reports on Haiyan in Vietnam, China
With Super Typhoon Haiyan making landfall in northern Vietnam late Sunday, Nov. 10, catastrophe modeling firm RMS summarized early damage reports from local agencies on its website today. In a Nov. ...
South Africa’s MMI Acquiring Alexander Forbes Insurance Business
MMI Holdings Ltd., South Africa's third-largest insurer, agreed to pay 1.6 billion rand ($158 million) for Alexander Forbes Ltd.'s insurance business. MMI will fund the cash acquisition of Guardrisk ...