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April 2009/4

  • Broking giant Willis Group’s French-based affiliate, Gras Savoye & Cie, is reportedly looking at alternative investment solutions over a put option purchased by the former in 1997, which could oblige it to increase its stake in France’s largest broker...
  • Munich Re has checked its bullish stance on rate prospects, as the reinsurer's chairman described a "satisfactory" first quarter while acknowledging that its optimism late last year was still to filter through to widespread rating improvements.
  • After being buoyed by comments from the G7 group of most industrialised nations on Friday (24 April) that the world economy was showing early signs of recovery, global stock markets slipped downwards again this morning amid fears of a swine flu epidemic.
  • Willis Group's first quarter results, due out this week, will be scrutinised carefully by investors for the performance of its US operations, following last year’s $2.1bn acquisition of Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs (HRH).
  • Investors are poised for a hectic period of first quarter reporting from the global (re)insurance sector that will reveal whether the wide-scale pain inflicted on balance sheets in 2008 has eased in the early part of 2009.
  • Nick Jones, former head of Heritage's worldwide property division and lead underwriter on the insurer's Lloyd’s Syndicate 1200, is set to resurface in the Lloyd's market as the head of RenaissanceRe's (RenRe) planned new syndicate, according to market sou
  • Bermudian reinsurer Platinum Underwriters posted a 19.3 percent year-on-year decline in its first-quarter net income to $84.9mn.
  • Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) saw its first quarter net income drop $8.2mn compared to Q1 2008 to $23.3mn.
  • Ironshore's progress towards creating Lexington MKII continues unabated, with the appointment of Andrew Archambault as its senior reinsurance buyer and Edward Mazman as senior vice president of its US property unit.
  • Marsh is revamping its proposed facility with Berkshire Hathaway for Gulf of Mexico (GOM) windstorm risks in a bid to drum up interest, after receiving insufficient support from potential buyers to meet its planned launch date.
  • Former Marsh UK executive Stephen Matanle is returning to the market as head of Thompson Heath & Bond (THB) - which is the Lloyd's broker division of AIM-listed broker THB Group plc - as first revealed by The Insurance Insider.
  • Lancashire Insurance Group is filling part of the growing void in Gulf of Mexico (GOM) windstorm cover by opening up its Octopus product to the wider market.