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  • Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett ‘The Snowball – Warren Buffett and the business of life’ went on sale at the beginning of the month as its subject continues to dominate the headlines.
  • Despite initial estimates of $8.1bn, (re)insurers and investors are continuing to bet that the final loss for Hurricane Ike will eventually climb to over $10bn.
  • Beleaguered life securitisation Ballantyne Re has been dealt a further blow as ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded three tranches of the bond to junk status, citing mark-to-market losses in the collateral account.
  • Industry Loss Warranty (ILW) prices spiked during the early part of the US hurricane season on the back of large orders in the market from beleaguered (re)insurer XL Capital Ltd.
  • Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded four cat bonds guaranteed by failed investment bank Lehman Brothers in September, signalling further contagion of the financial sector crisis in the insurance linked securities (ILS) market.
  • The annual migration of the US legacy business to the fringes of New York occurs this month with the melt-down in the financial markets and the implications for (re)insurers the inevitable main topics of conversation.
  • The paradox of the legacy industry is the more successful you are; the less you have to do. Indeed, the UK non-life run-off market has now shrunk 30 percent in four years and, at £28.3bn, is the smallest it’s been for at least a decade.
  • The 6 October saw Randall & Quilter (R&Q) affiliate Cavell USA launch its UK offensive against private equity owned Seaton Insurance Co and Stonewall Insurance Co in the English Commercial Court for alleged breach of...
  • Engineering specialist TSM Agencies Ltd is approaching potential investors to launch a Lloyd’s syndicate, The Insurance Insider understands.
  • After a miserable year-to-date for industrial and weather-related losses, (re)insurers’ worst fears following US Midwest flooding in June at least appear misplaced.