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Pandemic-Era Carriers Attracting Hedge Funds’ Attention
Five years after London-based hedge fund Toscafund ditched the shares it held in insurance companies, the $3.5 billion firm and its peers are flocking back, drawn by sharp premium increases which are ...
Alliant, Everest Re Launch Bid to Help Protect Hedge Funds From Cyber Attack
Hedge funds can spend years crafting a trading algorithm or a strategy to keep ahead of competitors. A Stone Point Capital-backed insurance broker is offering to help protect those trade secrets, and ...
Investment in Personal Injury Lawsuits With 20 Percent Returns: New Soros Strategy
The billionaire George Soros has found a new way to make money from personal-injury lawsuits. Soros Fund Management is pushing into a branch of litigation finance that few hedge funds have entered. ...
Hedge Funds Are Betting on a Reinsurance Recovery
Hedge funds bought reinsurance stocks in the third quarter after prices tumbled on widespread losses after multiple hurricanes in North America, filings showed on Wednesday. Hurricanes in the United ...
Reinsurers’ Catastrophe Defenses Weakened by Hedge Fund Rivals
It won't take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors such as hedge funds have eroded prices so much that a typical year ...
Swiss Re Cuts Risky Government Bonds, Hikes Corporates
The European Central Bank has turned government bonds into one of the riskiest asset classes, prompting Swiss Re AG to move more of its investments into corporate debt, according to the reinsurer's ...
Another Unprofitable Quarter For AIG, Thanks to Hedge Funds
American International Group Inc., the insurer that's shrinking under pressure from activist shareholders, posted a third-straight unprofitable quarter on losses from hedge funds and declines in the ...
Travelers Shares Plunge as Q1 Profit Drops 17 Percent
Travelers Cos., the lone property-casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said first-quarter profit slipped 17 percent as catastrophe costs climbed and investment income dropped on ...