November 2007/3
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UK corporate financier Sir Laurie Magnus said the British government needs to reduce Britain's corporation tax rate to around 20 percent to ensure the City retains its status as a world (re)insurance hub.
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Financial markets have been gripped by a new wave of fear in recent weeks, with Wall Street reacting to concerns about monoline bond insurers’ exposures to sub-prime losses, which could spark a credit crisis across the municipal bond market...
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London-based brokers Benfield Group and Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) saw their share prices drop at the back end of last week after being hit by weak equity markets.
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American Financial Group, Inc (AFG) is to become a significant capital provider to the Lloyd's insurer Marketform Group Ltd, and its Syndicate 2468 in 2008, Insider Week can reveal.
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French (re)insurance giant AXA posted life and savings new business volume of EUR5.6bn in the first nine months of 2007, up 26 percent on the previous year’s nine months, or 10 percent on a comparable basis...
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Insurance giant American International Group (AIG) reported operating results for the third quarter below analysts’ expectations, compounded by losses in its AIG Financial Products (AIGFP) division, which suffered a $352mn pre-tax charge on credit default
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German giant Allianz saw a 20.7 percent hike in third quarter net profits to EUR1.92bn, despite a fall in operating profits, driven by catastrophe losses in its property and casualty insurance business.
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Allianz continued its strategic stake-building in the UK distribution chain this month, with confirmation that it has acquired a 10 percent minority share of Yorkshire-based broker The Oval Group, as predicted by The Insurance Insider in September.
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Investors approved of Kiln's decision last week to return £60mn of capital to shareholders - part financed by the sale of its 20 percent interest in US insurer WR Berkley's European operation.
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Bermudian Validus Holdings Ltd almost doubled third quarter profits from $69.7mn to $136.5mn year-on-year as it reported its first set of results reflecting the July acquisition of Talbot Underwriting.
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Recently listed "Class of 2005" reinsurer Flagstone Re, which went public in May, has reported a 100 percent increase in gross written premiums for the third quarter of 2007, to $123.7mn, boosted by $21.8mn of premium carried over from the acquisition of
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Lloyd's managing agency, Novae Syndicates Ltd has improved its 2005 results forecast for its Syndicate 1007 to 14-19 percent profit, from previous forecasts of 11-16 percent, prompted by a net incurred loss ratio...
