KBW News
Allianz Aims to Produce Additional $6.9B in Annual Premiums
Allianz SE, Europe's largest insurer, aims to generate an additional 6.5 billion euros ($6.9 billion) in annual premiums as the company focuses on its most profitable businesses. Allianz wants to ...
Cagney Joining KBW Insurance Practice
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a full-service, boutique investment bank and broker-dealer that specializes in the financial services sector announced the appointment of Richard Cagney as Managing ...
Few Bad Weather Events = Strong P/C Q3: KBW
Most property/casualty insurers and reinsurers will likely have strong 2014 third-quarter results, thanks to the absence of major hurricanes and below-average catastrophe losses, analysts at Keefe, ...
P/C Underwriting ‘Negativity’ Is Spreading – KBW
Negativity in property/casualty insurance underwriting keeps spreading like a contagion in 2014, with very few lines escaping pricing pressures and no sign of a letup anytime soon, Keefe, Bruyette ...
Analyst: Reinsurance M&A Winds Are Increasing
Shareholders from Aspen Insurance Holdings have a July 25 deadline to vote on a number of governance proposals that could boost Endurance Specialty Holdings' prospects for acquiring the Bermuda ...
Endurance Building ‘Relevance’ Through Leadership Changes, CFO Says
Armed with the overstuffed Rolodex of its new CEO, John Charman, Endurance Specialty Holdings is moving into new markets like a startup, the company's chief financial officer suggested at an investor ...