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Canada-based property/casualty re/insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings has recorded a profit in the first quarter of 2017 after a loss in the same period a year earlier while in the process of acquiring Allied World Assurance Company.   28 April 2017
Insurance
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is “firing on all cylinders” and set for rapid growth stemming from a robust pipeline, despite issuance in the first quarter of 2017 lagging levels in the same quarter a year earlier, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson Securities.   26 April 2017
Insurance
NMI Holdings said that its subsidiary National Mortgage Insurance Corporation is preparing for a capital markets-based reinsurance transaction with a newly-formed Bermuda special purpose insurer to purchase $211.3 million of excess of loss reinsurance protection.   25 April 2017
Insurance
JLT Specialty USA, a US subsidiary of broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, has hired former employee Molly Nolan as senior vice president to further build its specialty expertise in the Northeast. She will be based in Boston, and focus on broking and client development.   24 April 2017
Insurance
Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide, a Verisk Analytics business, has unveiled a cyber risk modelling application for the re/insurance market that will provide underwriters and risk managers with a variety of cyber analytics.   24 April 2017
Insurance
Unprecedented volatility in economics, demographics and geopolitics and rapid technology advancements are transforming traditional risks for global businesses, adding new urgency and complexity to old challenges, according to Aon’s 2017 Global Risk Management survey.   24 April 2017
Insurance
The cyber insurance market will become more resilient if it is considered as a standalone line of business rather than a peril, according to JLT Re.   24 April 2017
Insurance
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating potential misconduct within the aviation broking industry in the UK.   21 April 2017
Insurance
The performance of the reinsurance sector shows a clear trend of deterioration as the soft market squeezes profitability. While traditional reinsurers return capital to shareholders due to a lack of profitable business opportunities, alternative capital remains keen for opportunities to invest – potentially making the situation worse, suggests James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International.   21 April 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
Now that the market has a solution for ocean marine and offshore energy, the time could be right for these risks to flow into the ILS market, says Tom Johansmeyer of Verisk Insurance Solutions.   20 April 2017

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