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  • Markel and Abbey agree $185mn deal below trading price
    It's not often that a profit-making listed company is acquired for less than its current share price. But that is what occurred last week when US (re)insurer Markel Corp agreed to buy the UK professional fees insurer Abbey Protection, in a deal that will bolster its presence in the specialist end of the UK retail market.
    14 October 2013
  • Direct Line offloads life unit
    Direct Line, the UK motor insurer spun out of bailed-out lender Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) last year, has announced plans to sell a closed book of life policies and return the proceeds to investors via a special dividend of 4 pence per share.
    14 October 2013
  • Berkshire among bidders for Hartford Japanese annuity unit
    Berkshire Hathaway was among the parties that made first-round bids for The Hartford's Japanese variable annuity business, it is understood.
    14 October 2013
  • R&Q buys Flagstone Cyprus run-off from Validus
    London-listed Randall & Quilter (R&Q) bought run-off insurer Flagstone Alliance Insurance and Reinsurance (FAIR) from Validus for $24.1mn last week, at a 15 percent discount to net asset value.
    14 October 2013
  • Loss of property cat ‘subsidy’ will show in Q3: KBW
    The hit to profitability from the well-publicised drop-off in US catastrophe rates in 2013 will start to become apparent in the third quarter, analysts at US investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) said in a note previewing the upcoming results season.
    14 October 2013
  • Bill Berkley expects more insurer meltdowns
    More (re)insurers are likely to suffer financial crises of the kind that have engulfed Tower Group and Meadowbrook due to underpriced business and under-reserving in the low interest rate environment, says industry entrepreneur Bill Berkley.
    14 October 2013
  • Carriers view wholesale broker consolidation with concern
    If 2013 will be remembered for the growing exercise of broker power, 2014 may be the year when the battlefield moves to the wholesale arena.
    14 October 2013
  • Lloyd’s capacity prices soar
    Capacity prices at Lloyd's jumped by nearly two thirds in the second auction of 2013, in a further sign of the 325 year-old insurance market's growing appeal to investors.
    14 October 2013
  • Lloyd’s takes active approach to Vision 2025 with PICC courtship
    The more energetic approach that Lloyd's has taken to bringing the People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) into the market is part of a wider strategic shift that also saw the Corporation reach out to Spanish and Latin American market leader Mapfre earlier in the year, it is understood.
    14 October 2013
  • Analysts now valuing Tower on a run-off basis
    Two equity analysts have written notes with valuations for New York-listed carrier Tower Group based on it going into run-off.
    14 October 2013
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