June 2013/1

If further evidence was required of asset managers' current enthusiasm for catastrophe reinsurance, then the $275mn mandate that Leadenhall Partners won from the New Zealand Superannuation Fund late last month demonstrated it perfectly...

Marsh's recently launched Delta D&O and professional indemnity (PI) programmes are the latest manifestations of the "underwriting club" phenomenon taking hold in London, The Insurance Insider can reveal

The Insurance Insider is not convinced that this is a permanent shift in the way subscription market business is placed...

The recent rash of broker facilities has echoes of the disastrous energy portfolio deals that emerged in London's brutally soft market of 1997-2000...

Marsh may have eschewed the headline-grabbing initiatives of its rivals, but it has been highly active in fashioning cross-portfolio deals with individual carriers over the last three years

The Insurance Insider provides exclusive analysis on the eruption of exclusive broker portfolio transactions in the London/Bermuda subscription markets

Florida insurers rated by AM Best now get 100 percent credit for coverage they buy from the mandatory layer of the state's cat fund, after the agency updated its assessment of exposure to the entity

Everest Re is back on the 1 June-renewing $250mn+ quota share (QS) with Universal Property & Casualty after losing out to rival Odyssey Re in 2012, The Insurance Insider revealed last week

USAA was one of a number of nationwide insurers to restructure its reinsurance programme at 1 June amid dramatically changing market dynamics that helped it achieve a risk adjusted rate reduction of 11-12 percent, according to underwriting sources...

The unabated growth of traditional reinsurance capital and the influx of non-traditional capacity set the backdrop for a buyer's market at 1 June that is set to extend to the end of the year and beyond...

The embattled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has gone ahead with an upsized cat reinsurance placement as it looks to shore up its defences for the 2013 hurricane season, The Insurance Insider can reveal

Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has continued its strategy of luring heavyweight aviation insurance executives from its rivals by securing a six-strong team from Marsh, The Insurance Insider can reveal