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Towers Watson Shareholder Group Reportedly Wants Better Willis Merger Terms
Stakeholders who own millions of shares in Towers Watson & Co. are planning to vote against the firm's $8.7 billion merger with Willis Group Holdings Plc if the terms of the transactions are not ...
China Re Will Sell Half of $2B IPO to Cornerstone Investors
China Reinsurance Group Corp., the nation's biggest reinsurer, will sell about half of its as much as $2 billion Hong Kong initial public offering to cornerstone investors. U.S.-based Prudential ...
GHRA to Launch Insurance Research; Wilt, Zimmermann Lead Analysts
Gordon Haskett Research Advisors, an independent research organization, announced that the firm is launching insurance industry equity research with veteran analysts Bill Wilt and Alan Zimmermann ...
The Hanover Revamps Coverage For Non-Profit Groups
The Hanover Insurance Group is beefing up one of its main product offerings targeted to nonprofit organizations, with more sophisticated cyber security protection and other added offerings. Helen ...
Hamilton CEO Duperreault: Tech Improvements Boost Carriers and Brokers
Technology can transform and improve how the property/casualty insurance industry works on both the carrier and broker sides of the equation, asserts Hamilton Insurance Group CEO Brian Duperreault. ...
What Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb Has to Say About Insurance
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015. When Nassim Nicholas Taleb addressed a group of insurance executives recently, the author of the book "The Black Swan" was pretty ...
Bill Gross Sues PIMCO, Allianz For ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Over Ouster
Bill Gross sued Pacific Investment Management Co. and parent Allianz SE for "hundreds of millions of dollars," claiming he was wrongfully pushed out as the bond giant's chief investment officer by a ...
Watch This Video: Guy Carpenter’s David Priebe Considers The Future of Alternative Capital
Insurance linked securities, cat bonds, or collateralized reinsurance are no longer a novel thing. They're embedded in many insurance company capital frameworks, and, as a result, a routine part of ...