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Philadelphia Insurance, Travelers Donate for Typhoon Relief
Philadelphia Insurance Companies and The Travelers Companies, Inc . each announced donations to the American Red Cross last week to provide relief to the people affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the ...
Group Bidding for AIG’s Aircraft Leasing Firm Adding Backers: Report
Taiwanese tycoon Richard Tsai and Chinese financier Xiao Jianhua are in talks to help fund a $4.2 billion bid for American International Group Inc.'s aircraft- leasing unit, three people with ...
Citadel Reports Holding in Loeb’s Third Point Re After IPO
Ken Griffin's Citadel LLC and Cambiar Investors LLC are among asset managers that reported holdings in billionaire Daniel Loeb's Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. after the company's initial public ...
RLI Declares $3.00 Special Dividend and Two-for-One Stock Split
Late Thursday, RLI Corp. announced that its board of directors has declared an extraordinary cash dividend of $3.00 per share of common stock, which is expected to total approximately $65 million, ...
Insured Losses from Haiyan Could be $300M-$700M: AIR Worldwide
AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses from Super Typhoon Haiyan will range between $300 million and $ 700 million, the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm said Sunday. AIR also said that total ...
ILS Market Could Be $150B by 2018, Cat Bonds Likely $50B: BNY Mellon
The level of catastrophe bonds outstanding could more than double from the current level of $19 billion to $50 billion by the end of 2018, according to a report from BNY Mellon. The global provider ...
California State Fund CEO and CFO Resign
Two top executives at California's State Compensation Insurance Fund have resigned. State Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe and Chief Financial Officer Dan Sevilla will resign from State Fund, the ...
Insurance for Futures Seen Feasible After MF Global’s Collapse
Insurance against losses for U.S. futures customers may be feasible, according to a study commissioned after MF Global Holdings Ltd. and Peregrine Financial Group Inc. collapsed. The study, ...