Mapfre SA, Spain’s largest insurer, cut its annual dividend and posted a 32 percent drop in quarterly net profit as income from premiums fell. The shares fell [on Feb. 10] to the lowest since August 2012. The Madrid-based insurer proposed …
Zurich Insurance Group AG reported a worse-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter as the company makes plans to turn around its unprofitable general insurance unit. The net loss was $424 million compared with a profit of $860 million a year …
London-based Aon plc reported net income attributable to Aon shareholders in the fourth quarter of 2015 was $584 million, or $2.09 per share, a 27 percent increase from $459 million, or $1.56 per share, reported during for the prior year …
Beazley Plc Chief Executive Officer Andrew Horton said the company’s return on equity of 19 percent in 2015 isn’t sustainable against a backdrop of increased competition and falling insurance rates. “Margins are bound to come under pressure,” the CEO said …
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. reported fourth quarter 2015 operating income available to RenaissanceRe common shareholders of $135.0 million, or $3.07 per diluted common share, compared to $140.3 million, or $3.62 per diluted common share, in the fourth quarter of 2014. …
Bermuda-based Everest Re Group Ltd. reported fourth quarter 2015 after-tax operating income available to common shareholders of $353.5 million, or $8.17 per diluted common share, compared to after-tax operating income of $331.5 million, or $7.28 per diluted common share, for …
Munich Re, the world’s second-biggest reinsurer, plans to increase its dividend more than expected after fourth-quarter profit remained unchanged from a year earlier. The company plans to raise the dividend to 8.25 euros ($9.14) a share for 2015 compared with …
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. reported net income available to common shareholders for the fourth quarter of 2015 of $135 million, or $1.39 per diluted common share, compared with net income of $164 million, or $1.60 per diluted common share, for …
Zurich Insurance Group AG is “prepared to shrink” some of its businesses after being caught off guard by the scale of claims it had to absorb last year, according to Cecilia Reyes, the company’s chief risk officer. “We were surprised, …
Bermuda-based Validus Holdings Ltd. reported net income available to Validus of $69.0 million, or $0.81 per diluted common share, for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2015, compared to $125.9 million, or $1.38 per diluted common share, for the same …
