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4 February 2012

Axis maintains brave face on credit exposures

11 November 2009

Axis Capital posted an impressive combined ratio for the third quarter - 73.2 percent against an Ike-affected 128 percent last year - but it was the group's political risk/credit exposures that garnered much of the attention, along with its previously disclosed life securitisation loss.

CEO John Charman is a long-standing fan of the class - back in his Lloyd's days, Syndicate 488 was a keen writer - and Axis is a market leader.

In 2008, for example, the group wrote...

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