Reinsurance
Hard times.
Reinsurers have endured huge losses over the last couple of years due to the high number of catastrophes. In the wake of last week's Monte Carlo Rendezvous, Adrian Leonard analyses the future for the reinsurance rating cycle in London.
Reinsurance market could be halved.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
Jaguar chooses Tracker.
Jaguar has chosen Tracker as the recommended provider of tracking devices for its latest range of ca...
The mood in Monte.
On the eve of this year's Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, Janina Clark asks reinsurers about the present and future state of their market, and gets some conflicting answers.
Bug's legal effects.
Don Cruickshank, chairman of Action 2000, has warned businesses that they could face "potentially di...
£164m in the red.
Australian insurer AMP has slipped into the red by A$398 (£164m) partly due to liabilities incurred ...
Girl power.
Over the last three decades, women have made considerable progress in the struggle against gender prejudice in reinsurance, but Liesl Hattingh finds it remains a tough career path.
Hannover shares "a bargain".
The Hannover Re group has complained that its shares are undervalued despite its continued good perf...
Re - Rates - Cautious optimism.
The signs are good. Underwriting losses have been reported for the last quarter. Companies have with...
Typhoon Olga.
Typhoon Olga - shown as yellow spirals moving over South Korea on 1 August - was tracked from its bi...
Monte Carlo or bust.
After 43 years, the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous is still a 'must' in the reinsurance calendar. Janina Clark looks back at its history.
Web trader casts net.
London-based Benfield Greig Interactive, an Internet services company that builds interactive tradin...
Exceptional Indemnity.
Rating agency Moody's has assigned an 'Aaa' (exceptional) financial strength rating to Berkshire Hat...
Appointment at Swiss Re UK.
Patrick Murphy-O'Connor is to join Swiss Re UK as client team manager for Lloyd's. He was previously...
Enhance downgrade.
Enhance Re of New York has had its financial strength rating downgraded by Moody's from 'Aaa' (excep...
JLT reshuffle prompts profit rise prediction.
UK broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) is promising years of increasing profits from its reorganisat...
PXRE off to Bermuda to cut tax bill.
New Jersey reinsurer PXRE plans to relocate to Bermuda to take advantage of the island's friendly bu...
Vietnamese firm beats crisis.
Vietnam National Re (Vinare) rode out the Asian economic turmoil and a decline in Vietnam's economic...
S&P bell tolls for Lloyd's syndicates.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has listed the top trading syndicates at Lloyd's. According to th...
On firmer ground.
Although the traditional reinsurance market in the US is still soft in some sectors, John McLaughlin detects the first signs that rates are hardening.
Looking forward, looking back.
Will the reinsurance industry undergo as many changes in the next decade as it did in the last? Janina Clark asked some of the market's key players to predict what is in store for the next millennium...
1998's top 25 reinsurance groups ranked by net written premium.
(A) Reinsurance premiums written 1998 ($m) (B) Reinsurance premiums written 1997 ($m) (C) Change...
Soaking up the sun.
Roger Crombie advises Bermuda's (re)insurers to make the most of the sunshine, as bad weather could be on the way.
Life saver.
With non-life reinsurance in a parlous state, is life and health business the only hope for reinsurers? David Fanning investigates.