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Investors should be optimistic about Qatari insurance
Investors should be "guardedly optimistic" for the medium- and longer-term future of the Qatari insu...
Factors of fraud
With fraudulent investment schemes hitting the headlines, Donald McDonald and David Kendall look at the legal liabilites of intermediaries for investors' losses from an English law perspective
Noor launches Takaful brand
Noor Investment Group, the Dubai-headquartered company, has launched its Noor Takaful brand. Noor s...
Mad month for Swiss Re
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re saw its ratings downgraded by all three major ratings agencies after it r...
Perfect partners
Where will the (re)insurance sector turn to next for capital? Paul Lumbis covers the recent developments in the capital markets and explains why private equity will continue to be an important ally for the industry
AIG loses $61.7bn in fourth quarter
AIG revealed that it had lost $61.7bn in the fourth quarter of 2008 and more than $99bn for the whol...
Sharia Law protected companies
Gulf Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) and Takaful companies have been hit less severely than mo...
Guy Carpenter acquires Collins
Guy Carpenter has agreed to acquire John B Collins Associates (Collins), a privately-held company th...
Berkshire Hathaway profits sink
Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations saw underwriting profits sink. The insurance operation, w...
Global markets send Arig to 2008 loss
The dramatic decline in the global equity markets triggered a revaluation in the invested assets hel...
Hannover Re rates boost
Hannover Re gave a much-needed boost to the the (re)insurance industry when it said that it expected...
Swiss Re downgraded by AM Best
Troubled Swiss reinsurance giant Swiss Re has been downgraded by ratings agency AM Best.