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An agile and lean managing general agent (MGA) market may help insurers respond to a soft market which makes finding profitable growth a challenging quest. 3 May 2017
Insurance
In tough times, leveraging the expertise and access to risks that many managing general agents possess can be an enticing prospect for insurers, as Intelligent Insurer discovers. 3 May 2017
Insurance
Speciality property/casualty insurance group AmTrust Financial Services (AFSI) should take a reserve charge “in the hundreds of millions of dollars” and commit to “much-improved disclosure” in order to restore investor confidence, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. 3 May 2017
Insurance
Following the completion of its acquisition of Ironshore, property/casualty insurer Liberty Mutual has combined its existing Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) US business and Ironshore’s US specialty lines business under the Ironshore brand. 3 May 2017
Insurance
Ratings agency AM Best has removed Ironshore Insurance and its subsidiaries from “under review with developing implications” following its acquisition by Liberty Mutual Holding Company’s (LMHC). 2 May 2017
Insurance
Chicago-based commercial and property/casualty (P/C) insurer CNA Financial Corporation boosted results in the first quarter of 2017 pushed by the P/C unit and driven by investment returns and lower underwriting expenses. 2 May 2017
Insurance
Interest rates globally remain very low and will further pressure insurers' investment returns in the next few years. For non-life insurers this will mean falling investment income, but for life insurers the insolvency risk is rising, according to Moody’s. 28 April 2017
Insurance
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
Low investment returns and higher capital requirements on some business could drive a two-thirds increase in the volume of German life insurance portfolios in run-off over the next five years, Fitch Ratings says. 28 April 2017
Insurance
The impact of the low interest rate environment has yet to test the robustness of both life and non-life re/insurers as the effect slowly trickles down on companies’ balance sheets, increasingly impacting results, according to Moody’s. 28 April 2017
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