insurance market
Puerto Rico : government initiatives to grow insurance sector
Government initiatives in Puerto Rico have seen its insurance industry grow by a CAGR of 5.8% between 2007 and 2011, despite its contracting economy.
A...
Swiss Re : new study forecasts improvements in the global economy and rising prices in casualty lines
Swiss Re’s latest study, "Global re/insurance review 2012 and outlook 2013/14" provides a mildly optimistic view of the future of the global economy and...
Xchanging : brings London Insurance Market to Littlehampton in 150km charity ride
Xchanging recently organised a 150km cycle event for the Lloyd's Insurance market on the roads around the South Downs and West Sussex coast.
The ride,...
High Growth Economies & Emerging Markets
One Day Conference
May 3rd 2012 | Dexter House | London
A sustained period of flat-line growth in the established insurance markets has led many companies...
China : more Chinese plan to buy insurance as awareness of risk rises
A study released by Swiss Re shows that 72 per cent of Chinese plan to purchase insurance in the next year. The main reasons...
EIOPA : results of second stress test
EIOPA announces the results of its second European insurance stress test. The exercise confirms that the insurance market in Europe covered by the stress...
EU probes investment bank giants over debt insurance abuses
Europe launched antitrust probes Friday into giant US and European banks whose fine-slicing of the insurance market was blamed by debt-ridden eurozone...
Solicitors’ professional indemnity concerns sent renewal forms flooding in early
Evidencing that law firms recognised the need to start the renewal process for their professional indemnity (PI) insurance early, Aon, insurance broker, was keen...
Arista 21% growth on 2009
Commercial lines underwriting specialist Arista Insurance has recorded a 21% increase in income in the first half compared with the same period in...
Insurance market : Legal & General insurer shares rise on bid talk-traders
Shares in insurer Legal & General rose 3 percent on Wednesday, hitting a near two-year high and outperforming UK peers, with traders citing market...
Insurer Prudential says profits soar, despite failed AIA bid
British insurance giant Prudential said on Thursday that profits jumped 41 percent in the first half, and cut the cost of its failed takeover...
Liberty Syndicates enters motor market as new team joins
Liberty Syndicates Management Limited (Liberty Syndicates), a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is entering the UK and Irish motor insurance markets through the hiring...
Aon GRIP reaches 500,000 trade milestone
Aon Global Risk Insight Platform, the industry-leading and award-winning real-time electronic platform that tracks Aon’s placements globally, has hit a new milestone with its...
Brokers: Allianz reports quoteSME success
Following the launch of its integrated online SME trading platform, ‘QuoteSME’, late last year, Allianz Commercial is hailing the system’s success.
Half-year figures reveal...
Oak expands distribution footprint with Westinsure
High net worth specialist Oak Underwriting PLC has agreed a deal with Westinsure Group to provide high net worth (HNW) expertise to its network...
Ship insurance: Sri Lanka off war-risk list
London-based shipping underwriters have formally lifted a war-risk classification from Sri Lanka's ports a year after the island ended its decades-long ethnic war, the...
Aon to buy Hewitt for $4.9 billion, creating HR giant
Aon Corp, the world's largest insurance brokerage, said Monday it will buy Hewitt Associates Inc for $4.9 billion in cash and stock to create...
New British venture eyes state-rescued bank assets
A new venture is being launched to compete for acquiring retail banking assets bought by the British government at the height of the financial...
Aon expands captive consulting capabilities with formation of Aon global risk consulting Bermuda
Aon Global Risk Consulting, a leading provider of risk advisory services and part of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON), today announced the launch of Aon...
Whittington to launch new direct insurer in Singapore: DirectAsia.Com
Whittington Group, the international insurance investor and services provider, today announced the launch next week of a new direct online insurance company, DirectAsia.com, in...
