August 2014/3

Private equity-owned insurer Ironshore has concluded a 20 percent sale to Chinese conglomerate Fosun after a lukewarm response from institutional investors to its proposed IPO.

A mechanical failure and fire at a UK biomass plant in February is set to cost the insurance market $230mn, up from the initial estimate of $12mn, sister publication Inside FAC has revealed.

What was that noise? You may not have heard anything, but it might just have been the sound of the IPO window being shut again.

Private equity firm Aquiline is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Canada-headquartered (re)insurance intermediary Beach & Associates, The Insurance Insider can reveal.