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I think it’s fair to say it hasn’t been a great decade (or two) for AIG. Though it is still talked about with something approaching reverence as a career maker for many senior folks in the industry, the last twenty years or so could fill several text books with case studies on different aspects of corporate failure.
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It’s not a stretch to say the Lloyd’s performance drive was one of the major catalysts driving market dynamics over the past 12 months.
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AIG is adhering to the “give them an inch and they will take a mile” school of shareholder engagement with its recommendation to vote down an AGM resolution that would vastly increase the power of disgruntled stock owners to requisition one-off investor gatherings.
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They say there is no such thing as bad publicity. Though perhaps this isn’t how the cyber market feels at the moment.
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The CEO has provided answers to the central questions of distribution, cost and capital.
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The incoming Hannover Re CEO must retain the reinsurer’s competitive advantages as he makes his markThe incoming CEO faces short-term challenges as well as existential questions for the reinsurer.
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Last week, amid the flurry of statements about the future of Lloyd’s and where the market needs to go from here, I came across some interesting footage of the Corporation from all the way back in 1961.
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It probably did not come as a huge surprise to most observers that Watford Re’s stock market debut came at a discount to book value.
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A slew of reports in the national press that Lloyd’s is suffering from a sexual harassment crisis have carved the notion in stone and now threaten long-term damage to the market.
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Yesterday, Lloyd’s published its aggregate results.
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After Hurricane Katrina, a slew of big composite insurers including Axa and Chubb spun off their reinsurance arms, citing their excessive volatility.