Reinsurance
Another Climate Report Outlines Business Risks, Insurance Pitfalls
"Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change to the United States," a report on climate change and how it will affect businesses, offers a variety of information on how a changing world will ...
CFO Levy to Lead Re Division at Munich Reinsurance America Replacing Albo
On Thursday, Munich Reinsurance America announced that Chief Financial Officer Steven Levy has been named president of the Reinsurance Division, effective October 1, 2014. Levy replaces Pina Albo, ...
Merger Questions and Answers: Ironshore Ends Deal; Tower Deal Survives
Property/casualty insurance industry merger news continued late last week with Ironshore announcing that its deal to acquire an Australia specialist fell apart, while Tower got an assurance that its ...
El Niño Doesn’t Reduce Need for Hurricane Prep, Guy Carpenter Warns
Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC warned that the U.S. Atlantic and Caribbean coastal regions should prepare for at least two hurricanes to make landfall during the 2014 season, even with ...
Aspen Tells Shareholders to Snub Endurance’s New M&A Overtures
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. may want to buy Bermuda reinsurance rival Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., but its acquisition target is doing everything it can to resist the hostile bid. In its ...
TransRe, Pillar Management Up Stakes in Pillar Capital to 50% Each
Pillar Capital Holdings Limited, a Bermuda-based insurance asset manager specializing in collateralized reinsurance and catastrophe insurance-linked securities, announced Tuesday that shareholders ...
Swiss Re: Emerging Markets Drove 2013 Non-Life Premium Growth
While global non-life insurance premiums increased in 2013, their growth rate dipped compared to the previous year. The slowdown could have become even worse, but robust coverage demands in most ...
Moody’s Affirms Validus Ratings Despite Western World Challenges
On Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service affirmed its ratings for Validus Holdings, Ltd., including the A3 insurance financial strength rating of the principal operating subsidiary Validus ...