In the City of London, executives are looking forward to the imminent general election as a chance for clarity after a turbulent few years. Matthew Beesley, chief executive officer at Jupiter Fund Management Plc, said markets are not afraid of …
Allianz SE is making a strategic investment in money manager AlTi Global Inc. in an expansion of the insurance giant’s global holdings in wealth management. The German insurer’s venture arm, together with alternative asset management platform Constellation Wealth Capital, will …
Crispin Odey has stepped back from an investment fund focused on the Lloyd’s of London insurance market in a sign of the fallout from sexual harassment allegations against the hedge fund founder spreading to his other holdings. Odey, 64, resigned …
Lancashire Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Alex Maloney dismissed suggestions the insurer would be better off combining with a larger competitor. “I don’t really buy the bigger is better thing,” Maloney said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday. “I …
Lancashire Holdings Ltd. reported a 10 percent fall in first-half profit amid “pricing pressure” in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market. The company said pretax profit decreased to $88.6 million in the six months through June, while gross written premiums …
UK regulators need to widen stress tests for insurers to show how the whole industry, including themselves, would respond to an event on the scale of the 9/11 attacks, Hiscox Ltd. said. Unless the Prudential Regulation Authority, or PRA, can …
Beazley Plc CEO Andrew Horton called on Lloyd’s of London to overhaul the way it manages trade information to make the world’s oldest insurance market more efficient and globally competitive. “The transfer of data in the market has got to …
Beazley plc, the first Lloyd’s of London insurer to report earnings, had a 16 percent increase in first-half profit, helped by growth in its U.S. business. Pretax profit rose to $154.5 million from $132.9 million a year earlier, the Dublin-based …
