November 2009/2

The share price of UK-quoted Randall and Quilter (R&Q) had fallen by 15.02 percent to 107.5p at the time of writing in the wake of today’s crucial LMX-related High Court judgment against the run-off management firm.

(Re)insurers are not banks, says Geneva Association; Axa on M&A trail with EUR2bn rights issue; Hedge fund takes Glacier reins; IPC gains boost Validus and Max profits...

Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) must respond to fraud charges accusing them of masking the risks of the collapsed Cheyne Structured Investment Vehicle (SIV).

The auction for German state-owned run-off group BF Rückversicherung has moved forward with the joint bid from German firm GLOBAL Rück and Randall & Quilter (R&Q) in pole position.

A hard core of companies who wrote reinsurance on the Sempra liability programme are continuing to resist payment, though no party in the acrimonious stand off has yet...

As the Q3 financial reporting season draws towards its close, there is growing evidence that (re)insurers’ boards are under pressure to focus on capital management.

As investors wallowed in financial markets despair at the start of 2009, few would have predicted the speed and size of the bounce in equities that began in mid-March.

Lloyd's insurer Jubilee is set to go ahead with its syndicate merger plans for the 2010 year, The Insurance Insider understands.

Former Benfield Group chairman is frontrunner...