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  • Specialty US property insurer Assurant Inc has successfully launched its first cat bond – the $150mn US wind bond Ibis Re Ltd Series 2009-1 – our sister publication Trading Risk reported earlier this week.
  • US insurance giant The Travelers Companies saw its Q1 net income fall by around a third from $967mn to $662mn on lower investment income and investment impairments.
  • Ratings agency Fitch has revised its outlook on Hannover Re from stable to negative, citing the German reinsurance giant's "weak underlying underwriting performance in 2008" and the challenging market conditions ahead.
  • Fairfax Financial Holdings - roundly lauded for sector beating results in 2008 as a result of canny credit derivative bets - has fared less well in the first quarter of 2009, slipping to a $60.4mn net loss caused by its enthusiasm for equities.
  • Bermudian (re)insurer Endurance Specialty Holdings is marketing a collateralised Florida-only sidecar vehicle to provide it with additional reinsurance capacity at the fast-approaching US mid-year renewal season, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
  • Bermudian insurer White Mountains posted a first quarter net loss of $9mn, compared to break-even in the first quarter of last year - a result which chairman and CEO Ray Barette described as "an okay quarter".
  • A septet of Bermudians have reported mixed Q1s; RenaissanceRe (RenRe), Everest Re and Arch Capital saw a drop in operating profits while Aspen Insurance reported higher profits on improved investment returns.
  • Troubled US insurer The Hartford Financial Services Group has slumped to a $1.2bn first quarter net loss, as it took a heavy charge to reflect the impact of equity market declines on future profits in its life operations, and announced a restructuring of
  • WR Berkley has confirmed the launch of its Lloyd's platform headed by former Brit Insurance executive Mike Sibthorpe, a move first revealed by The Insurance Insider.
  • A strong performance from Willis Group's international and London market operations ensured a healthy 29.8 percent adjusted operating margin for the global (re)insurance broker in its first quarter.