All Reinsurance articles – Page 53
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Flagstone buys stake in South African reinsurer
Bermudian reinsurer will acquire 65% of Imperial Reinsurance Company
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Montpelier Re names new CFO
Michael Paquette is named CFO; Kip Oberting is leaving to start an investment advisory firm
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New chief underwriter for XL Insurance
XL Insurance has named John Glancy to the newly created position of chief underwriting officer
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Berkshire to sell White Mountains stake
WTM will transfer certain runoff units and $751m in cash to Berkshire Hathaway
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White Mountains ratings unaffected by Berkshire deal
Berkshire will exchange its 16.3% stake in White Mountains for 100% of a WTM subsidiary
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Underwriting Risk Services launches Italian operation
Talbot Risk Services Italia will trade as a Lloyd's coverholder under the auspices of URSL
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Swiss Re: Nat cats on the rise
Catastrophes cost $70bn in economic losses and $28bn in insured losses in 2007
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Amlin Bermuda to replace underwriter
Rob Wyatt will replace John Andrews as underwriting director before 2009
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Subprime sees Ballantyne Re downgraded again
Scottish Re's sidecar is downgraded and placed on rating watch negative; significant subprime exposures warns Fitch
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Scottish Re delays results filing
The delay is due to subprime assessments and the life reinsurer's change in strategic focus
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Online onlyBrit profits and premiums up in 2007
“Brit is built to weather storms and is positioned for outperformance,” says Douetil
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The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
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Investment Analysis
Banging the drum for Bermuda
The absence of major catastrophe losses has meant another fantastic year for most Bermuda players. Investors should remain bullish despite softening reinsurance rates, argues Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
Black gold rush
There is a rush on. In case anyone failed to notice – reinsurance companies are scrabbling to set up shop in the Middle East. Mairi Mallon reports.
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CEO Q&ACEO Q&A: Nick Frankland
An interview with Nick Frankland, CEO of European Operations at Guy Carpenter
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When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
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Industry Matters
Learning curve
Dr Simon Young looks at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility after almost a year in existence.
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Editor's Note
Desert stampede
The fallout of subprime will be felt more keenly in today's global village than ever before
