July 2015/4

Industry bellwethers have produced further evidence that price increases in the US commercial P&C sector are slowing while striking different notes on the impact this is likely to have on margin in the second half of the year.

Potential cat bond sponsors could benefit from investor demand for diversifying perils, new exotic risks and higher risk-return transactions, Munich Re said in its latest insurance-linked securities (ILS) market report.

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) has launched its second Bosphorus cat bond, sister publication Trading Risk reported last week.

Assets under management at the top 10 insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers increased by just under 2 percent during the first half of 2015, according to data published by sister title Trading Risk.

London-listed Lloyd's insurer Beazley won plaudits from equity analysts after it unveiled a healthy start to 2015 with its half-year results.

Matthew Giddings, a transactional liability underwriter in Beazley's London office, is to join CFC Underwriting, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

The Lloyd's managing agency of Brian Duperreault's Hamilton Insurance Group has turned its Solvency II traffic light green after an extended period on red, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

The specie insurance market is expected to avoid a claim after a bag containing NZ$1mn was left on the tarmac of Hong Kong International airport earlier this month, The Insurance Insider understands.

Enstar executive vice president and group head of life Cormac Treanor has left the company less than a year after joining, The Insurance Insider has learned. Normal 0 false

StanCorp under review; Aon appoints China head; Syndicate 33 profit hike; RGA's profits dip; Ace-Chubb vote slated; Peak Re expands; Integro Re hires; JLT Re builds out; Allied World profits slide; US property price falls

As part of its "no" recommendation, ISS suggested that there may have been a lack of alignment between PartnerRe's board and its shareholders, raising doubts as to whether the board negotiated the best possible deal for investors.

ISS has raised significant doubts over Axis and PartnerRe's assertions that the combined entity might achieve a price-to tangible book multiple of 1.3x. Normal 0 false fal