January 2016/3

Direct General has become the latest US non-standard auto company to be put up for sale by its private equity owners, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Talks between expansive Chinese conglomerate Fosun and RSA over the sale of the latter's Middle Eastern operations have ended, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Despite popular conception, apparently there is no definitive evidence that the famous 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes was the first to say: "The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent."

Lloyd's carrier Ariel could see a fourth change in its ownership inside five years as its 50 percent stakeholder BTG Pactual wrestles with financial difficulties following corruption allegations.