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Justice : Hannover Re avoids German tax bill
German companies operating in Ireland are not liable for German corporate tax even if their Irish operations are technically run by a skeleton staff,...
Hannover Re : reduced collateral requirements for Florida
Following the agreement reached back in February of this year with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation allowing Hannover Re – as the first...
Aon Benfield ILS Indices represent key industry benchmarking tool
Aon Benfield Securities, the securities and investment banking operation of Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, today announces the launch...
Aon: Public/private partnership is the key to availability and affordability of terrorism risk insurance
Aon Corporation, a leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage services and human capital solutions, has responded to the President's Working...
Swiss Re says it weathers oil spill costs with big profit
Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurers, reported on Thursday an 812-million-dollar second-quarter net profit despite the cost of disaster damage from the...
Reinsurer Swiss Re says it weathers oil spill costs with big profit
Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurers, reported on Thursday an 812-million-dollar second-quarter net profit despite the cost of disaster damage from the...
Investments rescue Munich Re’s quarterly earnings
German insurance group Munich Re posted a better-than-expected second quarter net profit on Wednesday owing to earnings from investments, and raised slightly a full-year...
Belgian bank KBC sells units to Japanese, Australian firms
Belgian bank KBC has sold bond and derivatives trading businesses to Japanese firm Daiwa Capital Markets for one billion dollars (800 million euros), the...
Aon Benfield’s FAConnect platform delivers new capacity for Terrorism risk
Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, has teamed up with leading reinsurers to deliver enhanced facultative capacity for US Terrorism...
Swiss Re insurance profits dampened by disaster damage
Swiss Re, one of the world's biggest reinsurers, on Thursday reported a surge in first quarter profit although its results were dampened by losses...
FAConnect platform brings new facultative capacity for Chile earthquake risk
Aon Benfield, the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, is utilizing its groundbreaking FAConnect placement platform to respond to client demand for expanded...
Chilean earthquake to be the most expensive insured event in Latin American history
Following the recent earthquake in Chile and with continuing aftershocks, Stephen Jackson, Managing Director Latin America, Cooper Gay, comments today on the likely impact...
Chile : Swiss Re estimates that earthquake may cost up to 7 billion dollars to insurers
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re on Wednesday estimated that insurers will have to pay up to 7.0 billion dollars (5.16 billion euros) for damages arising...
Munich Re says recent disasters won’t blow it off course
Germany's Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, said on Wednesday it was confident of a strong 2010 despite claims from the Chilean earthquake and...
AXA insurance reports fourfold profit leap
French insurance group AXA reported on Thursday a fourfold profit leap least year to 3.6 billion euros, beating analysts' forecasts, and saying it would...
Swiss Re edges back to profit-making
One of the world's biggest reinsurers, Swiss Re, on Thursday reported a 506-million-Swiss-franc annual net profit in 2009, edging away from a record loss...
Reinsurers had good fortune
Reinsurer underwriting results were better than expected due to the unusually low level of natural catastrophes in the third quarter according to the last...
CEIOPS and Swiss Insurance Supervisor agree to further enhance supervisory cooperation
Supervisory cooperation between CEIOPS Members and the Swiss insurance supervisor is based on a 2005 Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding. The Memorandum is one of...
Warren Buffett raises stake in Munich Re
US investor Warren Buffett has raised his holding in Munich Re, the world's leading re-insurance company, a statement to financial markets said on Thursday.
Buffett...
Brit Insurance announces exclusive deal with TruckView lens
Brit Insurance, the international general insurance and reinsurance group, today announces a ground breaking partnership with Alenia Optic to provide policyholders with the innovative...
