June 2015/4

Credit Suisse Asset Management's Niklaus Hilti said that rates on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market moving into "quite stable ground" provides a good indication of the reinsurance market's likely direction.

Richard Brindle will not look to establish a platform to underwrite on behalf of third-party capital until market conditions improve, the entrepreneur told The Insurance Insider, as start-up Fidelis started writing on its own balance sheet.

A report by research, risk and asset management company Conning has found that US managing general agent (MGA)-sourced premium exceeded $33bn in 2014.

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Berkshire Hathaway's approach to accessing premiums in the reinsurance and global specialty insurance space has changed meaningfully over the last few years

Panama-domiciled reinsurer Barents Re is looking to establish a European risk carrier with up to $200mn of start-up capital, The Insurance Insider understands.

The ousting of long-time Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford CEO Toby Esser leaves Lightyear Capital with essentially the same dilemma that it has faced for the last year

Private equity house Cinven has hired Evercore to handle the divestiture of its closed UK life insurer Guardian Financial Services, The Insurance Insider has learned.

Less than a year after leaving Aspen, where he was CEO of reinsurance, James Few is set to resurface as global managing director of Amlin's reinsurance division.

Back in January 2008, when the global financial crisis was still a containable blow-up at a few overleveraged hedge funds and an esoteric accounting debate about AIG's super senior credit CDS portfolio, the world was stunned by a five-year 20 percent quota share of Swiss Re by Berkshire Hathaway.

Integro is working with Evercore as it looks to recapitalise and provide exits for a number of its founding investors, The Insurance Insider can reveal.