All direct and facultative articles
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NewsWillis adds three senior hires to strengthen GB fac team
Fiona Kerr, David Watson and James Kelly join the fac business at Willis, part of WTW, to drive growth in property, retro and casualty D&F broking
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NewsSwiss Re creates global fac reinsurance unit
Sanaa Souidi will lead Swiss Re’s global facultative reinsurance market unit, the firm announced.
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NewsEditor’s opinion-analysis: PV’s soft market has dodged a bullet; what will 2025 bring?
A $41m High Court case points to PV’s soft market traits despite the volatile geopolitical landscape, writes David Benyon, editor of GR.
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NewsTrust Re seeks return to rating as rebuild continues – Albaharna GAIF34 interview
Chief executive of Trust Re explains the reinsurer plans to restore it’s former rated A-rated status, putting an end to temporary fronting arrangements while its shareholding issue is resolved.
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NewsMiller appoints Spells as its new London property fac broking leader
Ollie Spells joins the broker in January from Guy Carpenter to lead property facultative reinsurance in London.
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NewsFraccalvieri named as EMEA fac leader for Aon Reinsurance Solutions
Nicola Fraccalvierii re-joins from rival reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, where he led fac across continental European plus London for casualty, specialty and financial lines.
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NewsLockton Re names new North American prop fac leader
Senior reinsurance broking appointment joins Lockton from insurer Liberty Mutual.
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NewsHannover Re sees property cat rate hikes of 30%
Prices and conditions ’not seen in decades’ was present at 1 January, as reinsurer looks to mid year
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NewsHowden Tiger offers “new force” in reinsurance broking
The broker is turning its sights to ’high growth specialist areas’ including MGAs and facultative reinsurance
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NewsMiller International launches, names Mike Papworth MD
Ron Whyte becomes head of Asia and Matthew Keeping succeeds Papworth as head of Property and Casualty
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NewsNewly-merged Howden Tiger launches fac division
Globally, it will be chaired by industry veteran Elliot Richardson and led in London by Gordon Craig
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NewsConsilium launches facultative reinsurance offering
Simon Richardson has been appointed managing partner of the division and joins from Besso Re
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NewsArcadian Risk Capital and Aviva in multi-year property binder
The target portfolio will be worldwide industrial and commercial property, mostly written on an excess-of-loss basis
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NewsTMK launches 'all singing, all dancing' life sciences product
Policy includes intellectual property and cyber coverage in a first for the Lloyd’s market
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News1 January confirms dislocated reinsurance and retro markets
Some US buyers failed to fill their programmes as Howden describes one of the ‘hardest reinsurance markets in living memory’
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NewsBMS appoints Mike Duffy as strategic adviser to UK specialty
Most recently, Duffy was group chief underwriting officer of Canopius, having joined the company in 2006
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NewsConnect launches energy reinsurer Pixel Re
Start-up reinsurer will provide facultative capacity for attachment points of typically $500m and above
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NewsInsurance placed for UK’s first space rocket launch
Once operational, Forgestar will be the world’s first fully returnable and re-launchable satellite platform
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NewsVolante opens shop in the DIFC
It will offer a combination of treaty and facultative reinsurance across multiple lines through Lloyd’s Syndicate 1699
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NewsHowden Re expands presence in Germany
Guy Carpenter’s Carsten Thienel will head up the new operations as part of a concerted push in the DACH region
