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Fairfax Seeking to Raise $1B From Africa Fund IPO
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Canadian insurer that announced its largest acquisition last week, is selling shares in an initial public offering for a fund that will make investments in ...
2017 Predictions Part IV: Hong Kong, China Face Tech-Related Insurance Industry Disruption
The twin forces of regulation and technology will see the emergence of new distribution models in 2017. This sounds like a commonly heard disrupter scenario for the U.S. and European markets, but ...
Brexit Threatens 10 Percent of London’s Financial Jobs: London Official
Up to 10 percent of jobs in London's financial district may be lost if Britain fails to secure adequate access to European Union markets after Brexit, a City of London official said on Wednesday. ...
2017 Predictions Part III: Motor-Cyber, India Reinsurance and More
Insurers and reinsurers continue to look for organic growth where they can find it – sometimes from emerging risks and sometimes from emerging markets. As always, the keys to success are market ...
U.S. Investigation Blames Facebook’s Big Drone Crash on Autopilot
The wing on Facebook Inc.'s experimental high-altitude drone broke last summer in Arizona after the massive aircraft hit an updraft and its autopilot overcompensated seconds before touchdown on its ...2017 Predictions Part II: InsurTech, Australia D&O and India Cyber Insurance
InsurTech was an insurance buzzword in 2016, and that's likely to continue next year when it will permeate almost every aspect of U.S. industry, according to a prediction from international law firm ...
A $4.9B Allied World Buy Means Watsa’s Fairfax Is Betting on Trump
Prem Watsa, the Canadian investor who just agreed to buy a Swiss company in his largest deal, called the $4.9 billion agreement a bet on U.S. growth under President-elect Donald Trump. The purchase ...
Greenlight Capital Re CEO Hedges to Depart; Goldberg Will Return in Interim Capacity
Greenlight Capital Re disclosed that CEO Barton Hedges will be stepping down at the end of March 2017. News of his impending departure comes weeks after A.M. Best slapped the struggling specialist ...