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Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
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Nearly 50 percent of the 100 person headcount reduction Axis Capital announced last week is taking place in Australia, where the group is to close its $80mn gross written premium branch operations, The Insurance Insider understands.
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The remaining Lloyd's stocks gave up ground last week, with Hiscox and Beazley the two biggest fallers in The Insider 30 at down 2.54 percent and 3.08 percent respectively.
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Double-digit price decreases were registered at aviation renewals in the third quarter of the year, despite a 7 percent increase to both fleet values and passenger numbers, according to JLT's latest Plane Talking report.
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The first auction for 2015 capacity on Names-backed syndicates at Lloyd's has seen the biggest price jump in five years, with average prices climbing almost 10p on the previous year to 36.7p per £1 of capacity.
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The imperative to sustain top-line growth is driving publicly traded Florida homeowners' insurers to seek acquisitions outside of the state, with two transactions announced last week.
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Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
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The average share price for the Insider 30 universe of P&C (re)insurers climbed 4.85 percent in the third quarter, significantly outperforming the S&P 500, the FTSE 100 and the Stoxx Euro 600 indices.
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Losses to the crisis-hit upstream energy market may have reached $2.7bn in the year to date as medium-sized claims continue to pummel the sector, according to figures from JLT and separate numbers from market sources.
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Proposed changes to AM Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR) could have far-reaching consequences for insurers on both the asset and liability sides of the balance sheet, driving fresh demand for reinsurance.
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The relative outperformance of US specialty carriers will continue to draw the attention of other insurers and investors looking to build a presence in the segment, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P).
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The news last week of Zurich's US commercial auto reserve charge has again shone the spotlight on a line of business that has proved troublesome for insurers
