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The second half of 2017 showed an uptick in insurance M&A deals globally for the first time since 2015 and was followed by a number of high profile transactions in 2018. 12 March 2018
Insurance
The insured property losses caused by extra-tropical cyclone Egon have reached €234 million in a revised estimate by PERILS, the Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider. 12 April 2017
Insurance
Global Risk Partners (GRP), an acquisitive insurance broking and managing general agency (MGA) investment vehicle, has agreed to back the management buyout (MBO) of Lonmar Global Risks (Lonmar), a specialist Lloyd’s broker. 27 April 2016
Insurance
Swiss Re has appointed Russell Higginbotham as CEO reinsurance EMEA effective Sept. 1, 2018, replacing Jean-Jacques Henchoz. 23 August 2018
Insurance
Global insurance premiums increased 1.5 percent to nearly $5 trillion in 2017, after rising 2.2 percent in 2016, according to the annually published "world insurance" sigma report. It also revealed that global life premiums increased 0.5 percent in 2017, while global non-life premiums rose 2.8 percent. Growth in both the life and non-life sectors slowed. 5 July 2018
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Spanish insurer Mapfre took some tough decisions last year—and also underperformed, according to its chief executive. Now, it wants to reap the rewards of these changes as well as its diversification to move into a new chapter, Antonio Huertas, chairman and CEO, tells Intelligent Insurer. 4 April 2019
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While presenting a sharp drop in profit for 2017 due to heavy natural catastrophe losses, Swiss Re CEO Christian Mumenthaler and chief financial officer David Cole praised the reinsurer’s diversification strategy away from P&C reinsurance which Swiss Re wants to further develop. 26 February 2018
Insurance
Billionaire investor David Einhorn told clients that his Greenlight Capital hedge fund, which manages the investments for reinsurer Greenlight Re, suffered fresh losses in June and has now dropped 18.3 percent this year, according to a Reuters report. 3 July 2018
Insurance
As part of Intelligent Insurer’s Underwriting Innovation USA online conference, Laila Beane of Intellect SEEC will outline an AI-powered, data-first approach to a quicker, better and more profitable portfolio. Here she explains what lies in store. 5 November 2020
Insurance
McLarens, a global loss adjuster specialising in complex, commercial and niche markets, has expanded its Asia Pacific footprint with the opening of a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2 July 2018
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