December 2007/6
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An active week at Berkshire Hathaway saw the Warren Buffett-headed firm enter the troubled bond insurer sector, and buy-up a reinsurance run-off unit of Dutch financial services giant ING for $433mn.
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AM Best has removed the ratings of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) from negative and revised them to stable.
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Lehman Brothers, the largest US underwriter of mortgage-backed bonds, faces legal action by Australian municipal governments after the value of its sub-prime related investments dropped by as much as 86 percent.
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General Re has been ordered to produce records of its internal investigations in the criminal trial of four of its former executives that is due to begin in Connecticut on 7 January.
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Insurance linked securities (ILS) pioneer and prolific cat bond issuer Swiss Re has returned to the capital markets with the issue of a further $60mn of notes under its $1.5bn Successor Hurricane Industry shelf programme.
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Shares in reinsurance broker Benfield Group are continuing to fall following another bearish note from analysts at Numis Securities.
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Major brokers Aon Corp and Willis Group Holdings have welcomed the seven-year extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) that was signed into US law by President Bush on 26 December.
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Bermudian reinsurer Validus Re has replaced its collateralised quota share vehicle, $200mn marine and offshore energy sidecar Petrel Re, with a similar arrangement backed by an existing reinsurer.
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Despite the absence of so-called "megacatastrophes", a high number of loss events resulted in a 50 percent increase in economic losses from natural catastrophes to $75bn, with subsequent insured losses almost doubling to just under $30bn.
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Financial guaranty and credit (re)insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGL) has successfully raised net proceeds of $304mn on the sale of 12,483,960 shares in a public offering priced at $25.50 a share.
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Specialist broker THB is still in talks with PWS holdings over the acquisition of PWS' Lloyd's business and overseas interests.
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In a further twist of the sub-prime knife, ratings agency Fitch has placed the world’s second largest monoline bond insurer, Ambac Assurance Corp on Rating Watch Negative.
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