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Peter Hastie

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  • Lloyd’s chairman Nelson may step down early
    John Nelson is considering stepping down as chairman of Lloyd's before the end of his second term, The Insurance Insider can reveal
    Adam McNestrie, 13 September 2015
  • Reinsurance platform launched in bid to host public-private capacity auctions
    The £2bn Flood Re reinsurance placement is likely be one of the first transactions placed through GCReBid, an online auction platform announced by Guy Carpenter on the eve of the annual Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous.
    Peter Hastie, 13 September 2015
  • Banking on insurance
    As the callow children stood on stage to bid farewell to the institution that had nurtured them since infancy, they held aloft hand-written signs adorned with their future aspirations.
    Peter Hastie, 04 August 2015
  • The perils of M&A…
    Donald Trump can be an acquired taste. After all, when he is not litigating, filing Chapter 11 proceedings or property developing, he can often be seen on television dismissing another Apprentice aspirant with his mean-spirited catch phrase, "you're fired".
    Peter Hastie, 08 June 2015
  • AmTrust hires Swiss Re underwriter for marine launch
    AmTrust is to launch a London marine business after hiring Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' head of London marine, Peter Townsend.
    Adam McNestrie, 11 May 2015
  • Founding CEO Fairfield leaves ANV
    Ontario Teachers-backed Lloyd's insurer ANV has today (20 April) parted company with its founding CEO Matt Fairfield with immediate effect.
    Peter Hastie, 20 April 2015
  • Xchanging’s Pell to leave
    Max Pell, the head of the London market's back office joint ventures with Xchanging, is to leave the outsourcing organisation in the second quarter.
    Peter Hastie, 02 April 2015
  • News digest
    AIG acquires; Lloyd's Beijing; Cyclone Pam; Axis and PartnerRe boost; Thai attractions; BHSI energy hire; Double Dubai; Torus exit; Citizens levy ends; Cyclone Marcia; Scor shuffle; Integro acquires; Validus affirmed; Hales exits; Airmic appoints
    Peter Hastie, 16 March 2015
  • Hyperion-RKH a ‘unique proposition’: Howden
    By marrying an international retail network to a London market specialty play and a global managing general agency (MGA), Hyperion and RK Harrison are creating something that sets the group apart from competitors, according to founding Hyperion CEO David Howden.
    Adam McNestrie, 03 March 2015
  • Bridgwater to bank £100mn from RKH sale
    If the three most prominent London market figures to have realised close to £100mn from either creating or running insurance businesses in the last decade are John Charman, Richard Brindle and Grahame Chilton, then the £400mn+ sale of RK Harrison has created a fourth: its outgoing CEO Paul Bridgwater.
    Adam McNestrie, 03 March 2015
  • Berkshire Hathaway posts $2.7bn 2014 underwriting profit
    The insurance engine that drives the vast Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate marked its 12th consecutive year of underwriting profits with a full-year net underwriting gain of $2.67bn, down from the $3.09bn a year earlier.
    Peter Hastie, 02 March 2015
  • Steadfast to raise A$300mn to fund major QBE agency deal
    The fast-expanding Australian intermediary Steadfast Group Ltd is to raise A$300mn to acquire QBE's underwriting agency businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
    Peter Hastie, 16 February 2015
  • The Holy Grail
    Lime Street wags had recently speculated about what would see the light of day first: the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq (commissioned in 2009), or the winner of the tender to provide electronic placement services to the London market.
    Peter Hastie, 16 February 2015
  • Bolt boosts Lloyd’s as soft market takes grip
    September 2014 marked the completion of Tom Bolt's fifth year as guardian of Lloyd's underwriting standards and coincided with whispered speculation that the former Berkshire Hathaway executive would be the next senior figure to leave the Corporation.
    Peter Hastie, 09 February 2015
  • Towergate’s long-term future uncertain following debt deal
    The future of UK intermediary Towergate remains unclear despite the successful restructure of its £1bn debt pile, with no long-term strategic direction confirmed
    Charlie Thomas, 03 February 2015
  • Apollo in exclusive $300mn Chaucer motor talks
    Apollo Global Management, the multi-strategy investment heavyweight, is close to acquiring Chaucer's $300mn UK motor book and has hired the former Giles CEO Brendan McManus to lead the venture, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
    Peter Hastie, 26 January 2015
  • Debt vultures swoop as Towergate D-day approaches
    Despite raising the "for sale" sign almost two months ago, no buyers have appeared that are willing to take on Towergate's £1bn debt mountain
    Charlie Thomas, 13 January 2015
  • Rate malaise extends deep into specialty lines at 1.1
    While much attention has been focused on documenting the continued - and entirely expected - decline in cat reinsurance rates at 1 January, perhaps the more troubling trend for reinsurers and their capital providers is the extent to which the malaise has extended into other classes.
    Peter Hastie, 05 January 2015
  • Ex-QBE underwriter Bathia raising capital for new company
    Former QBE underwriter Ash Bathia is in the early stages of raising capital for an insurance start-up, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
    Adam McNestrie, 22 December 2014
  • Talanx in EUR180mn Chile move
    German insurance group Talanx will become a top five non-life Chilean insurer if it completes a deal announced today (19 December) to acquire Inversiones Magallanes
    Peter Hastie, 19 December 2014
  • Towergate sell-off eases Q1 liquidity pressure
    The sale of an aviation broking subsidiary last week to rival JLT Group should enable Towergate to make the £31mn in Q1 coupon payments that are due to bondholders of its £1bn debt mountain.
    Peter Hastie, 15 December 2014
  • Diversification rather than size driving reinsurance change
    The need for diversification rather than scale is driving much of the strategic evolution in the reinsurance sector, according to Bob Deutsch, the industry figure now spearheading the roll-out of Hamilton Insurance Group.
    Peter Hastie, 15 December 2014
  • A temporary reprieve…
    Last month, the price of Towergate's unsecured debt collapsed in the secondary markets as fears grew that the UK broker consolidator would fail to make the £31mn coupon payments due in the first quarter on the various layers of its debt mountain.
    Peter Hastie, 15 December 2014
  • Diversification fuelling M&A trend
    Despite the development of a two-tier reinsurance market, it is the need for diversification rather than simply scale that is a driving much of the strategic evolution in the sector.
    Peter Hastie, 11 December 2014
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