Issues

Analysts have estimated AIG has $6bn-$7bn of capital to deploy on M&A deals, as the insurance giant's shift from seller to buyer under the leadership of new CEO Brian Duperreault seems to be in train.

For some, the move to launch Langhorne Re might seem like a stretch even further beyond the competencies of a one-time property cat specialist.

RenaissanceRe's joint venture with Reinsurance Group of America will bring a diversifying stream of asset management earnings to the Bermudian's third-party capital management arm, while also giving it access to a wider pool of investors.

Stone Point, AmTrust CEO and chairman Barry Zyskind and the Karfunkel family have three months to get their proposed take-private deal for AmTrust over the line, according to filings.

The $1.37bn offer to take AmTrust private raises questions over the future of closely linked companies Maiden Holdings and National General.

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AmTrust looks set to delist from the Nasdaq Stock Market over the next six months, with the take-private offer from the Zyskind-Karfunkels and Stone Point offering investors significant near-term cash upside in place of a highly uncertain turnaround story.

Rate increases achieved by the property direct and facultative (D&F) market at 1 January could herald the beginning of a slow recovery in the class, which has been one of the greatest victims of the prolonged soft market.

Liberty Mutual emerged as the market leader in the northeast US, where primary homeowners' insurers face the prospect of mounting claims from subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall

Cat bond issuance reached a record $11.1bn last year as sponsors took advantage of low rates and an overhang of supply from 2016 to buy cover

The Insurance Insider's index of 50 P&C (re)insurance companies - The Insider 50 - grew by 11.3 percent in 2017 to 1,149.63 index points, a median performance relative to other major market indices.

Last week, we revealed AIG had purchased a new $2bn aggregate catastrophe reinsurance cover as well as a new international cat treaty and made other notable structural changes - signalling a shift under new CEO Brian Duperreault towards laying off more risk to reinsurers.