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  • It is late October and time for underwriters and brokers gathering in Colorado Springs and Baden Baden to go through the motions as they prepare to argue the finer points of renewal pricing and terms and conditions in a falling market.
  • The news that a PWS executive pleaded guilty to charges of bribery last week is proof that the law of the land will catch up with wrongdoers eventually - even with a Serious Fraud Office described by a former senior public prosecutor to The Insurance Insider as "unfit for purpose".
  • Chartis-backed Lloyd's (re)insurer Ascot Underwriting has cut 2011 capacity in its Syndicate 1414 to £600mn, de-empting from its stamp of £700mn this year amid difficult soft market conditions.
  • Warren Buffett's stake in German reinsurer Munich Re has crossed the 10 percent threshold and the billionaire has said he may buy more, insisting that the investment is financial rather than strategic.
  • Don Kramer, one of the leading advocates of a revitalised New York Insurance Exchange, is increasingly bearish on its prospects of success.
  • A New York judge has thrown out Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's attempts to dismiss a case holding him personally liable for damages arising from a sham reinsurance transaction that took place while he was running American International Group (AIG).
  • Apollo-backed Bermudian life reinsurer and fixed annuities investor Athene Holdings has bought Liberty Life Insurance, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, for $628.1mn.
  • The multi-year covers increasingly being offered by reinsurers offer further evidence of the sustained soft market's impact on underwriting conditions.
  • Hardy Underwriting has succeeded in holding on to the almost 20 percent share price bump it achieved after the revelation last week that it had rejected a £158mn approach by larger Lloyd's insurer Beazley.
  • Trade buyers - including US property and casualty giants Allstate and Travelers and Bermudian (re)insurer White Mountains - are thought to have entered the preliminary bid stage for Bank of America's (BoA) $2bn-valued Balboa Insurance unit.