Reinsurance
Bryant’s Reinsurance Fortune Helps Power Alabama’s Football Dominance
The University of Alabama opened a new football-training center last February. Any professional team would be happy to have it. The amenities include a $9 million weight room, a hydrotherapy pool ...
A.M. Best Urges Reinsurers to Innovate, Close Disaster Coverage Gaps as Capital Markets ‘Get Comfortable’
Characterizing the threat of third-party capital as an "adrenaline shot to the heart" of U.S. and Bermuda reinsurers, A.M. Best urges the reinsurers to innovate beyond simply managing capital of ...
UN Envoys Endorse First Steps Toward Next Pact on Global Warming
Diplomats from almost 190 nations endorsed a set of measures on global warming, laying the groundwork for a treaty to be adopted in 2015 that would limit pollution by all nations for the first time. ...
Everest’s Mt. Logan Re Appoints Whiting as CUO
On Friday, Mt. Logan Re, Ltd. announced the appointment of David Whiting to the position of Chief Underwriting Officer. Mt. Logan Re, Ltd. is Everest Re Group Ltd.'s special purpose reinsurer formed ...
Former KPMG COO Keizer Joins Montpelier Re Board
Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., a provider of short-tail reinsurance and other specialty lines, announced Monday that the Company's board of directors appointed Henry R. Keizer to fill a board vacancy. ...
Insured Loss for Midwest Tornadoes Could be $1B: RMS
The tornado outbreak that occurred on Nov. 17 could become the insurance industry's first billion-dollar severe weather event to occur in November, according to RMS. The catastrophe modeling firm ...
Fast Money Hedge Funds Won’t Keep Pension Funds Out of Terror Market, Says ILS Manager
To understand why the insurance-linked securities market will offer greater amounts of terror risk coverage in the years ahead, you have to understand the difference between two groups of ILS ...
We Can Write Terror Risk: Part II
The leader of a firm thought to be the world's largest investment manager of catastrophe bonds told federal lawmakers last week that the insurance-linked securities market is poised to provide ...