International
USAA Leads Insurers Flocking to Exchange-Traded Funds
The booming demand for hot exchange-traded funds has finally caught up with the staid, sleepy insurance industry. U.S. insurers are the latest group of investors to start buying ETFs en masse, with ...
New Zealand EQ Insured Losses Could Top $3B: AIR Worldwide
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide released its initial estimates of industry insured losses from the earthquake that struck New Zealand's South Island early this week, putting a range of $762 ...
With Brexit, UK Govt. Should ‘Refine Not Replace’ Solvency II: ABI
Rather than replacing Solvency II entirely when the UK leaves the European Union, regulators need to refine EU's insurance regulation to make it more appropriate for the UK market and customers, ...
UK Insurers, Banks Make Contingency Plans for ‘Hard Brexit’: BofE’s Carney
Banks based in Britain may start to relocate activities to other countries about one-and-a-half years before a British departure from the European Union if a "hard Brexit" looks likely, Bank of ...
AIG Agrees to Sell Japan Life Business to Hong Kong’s FWD Group
Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li is poised to buy American International Group Inc.'s Fuji Life Insurance Co. business, a deal that marks his FWD Group's first foray into Japanese insurance. AIG will ...
IIS Names Butt, Sumi, von Bomhard as Hall of Fame Candidates
The International Insurance Society has announced the nominees for the 2017 Insurance Hall of Fame. The 2017 candidates are: Michael Butt, Chairman of the Board, AXIS, Bermuda; Shuzo Sumi, Chairman ...
New Zealand Hit by Powerful Earthquake
New Zealand was hit by a powerful earthquake early Monday—one more than fifty times bigger than the 2011 Christchurch quake, according to catastrophe modeler RMS. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake ...
Argo Group’s Planned Ariel Re Buy Leaves S&P Long-Term Ratings Unchanged
Argo Group's planned $235 million acquisition of Ariel Re is drawing the market equivalent of a shrug from Standard & Poor's. S&P said that its long-term ratings for Argo and its related ...