Reinsurance
RMS: Reinsurers Can Adapt to ILS Invasion Using NIKE As Inspiration
With hedge and pension funds continuing to dive into the reinsurance market through insurance-linked securities, or ILS products, Peter Nakada urges the industry to get used to it and adapt. Nakada, ...
RMS CEO Shah Confronts Delays With Cat Modeling Platform Rollout
RMS launched its Exceedance 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. on April 14 with a hard sell of RMS(one), a cloud-based catastrophe risk management system the California company hopes will modernize ...
WSJ: NAIC Head Blasts Dodd-Frank Law’s Insurance Industry Reach
The head of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is lamenting that greater federal oversight now in place over insurers such as AIG is fixing something "that isn't broken," forcing ...
Will Validus Remain on Sidelines as Bermuda Consolidates?
With consolidation talk heating up in Bermuda this week, followers of the island market and its acquisition activity over the past decade wonder about the plans of Bermuda's most active acquirer in ...
Chilean Wildfire Damage Wipes Out 2,000-Plus Homes And Counting
Chilean firefighters were struggling to control a blaze around the city of Valparaiso that has destroyed more than 2,000 homes on Monday, just two weeks after an earthquake collapsed houses in the ...
Round 3: Endurance Says Aspen Offers Shareholders ‘Red Herrings’ Instead of Value With Bid Response
In the third volley of a contest between two Bermuda specialty companies on Monday, Endurance said that Aspen's rejection of a bid to buy the company for $3.2 billion ignores the best interests of ...
Aspen Board Unanimously Rejects Endurance’s $3.2B Hostile Bid
Aspen Insurance Holdings announced Monday that its board of directors has unanimously rejected a $3.2 billion takeover bid from Endurance Specialty Holdings announced hours earlier, calling the ...
Endurance Specialty Offers $3.2B to Acquire Aspen; Deal Would Create $5B Company
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced Monday that it has delivered a proposal to the board of directors of Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. to acquire all of the common shares of Aspen for $3.2 ...