China’s biggest industrial companies want to buy insurers in 2016 as they seek to grow outside Asia as the domestic economy slows and falling insurance rates prompt more firms to do deals, according to Willis Towers Watson Plc. “We’ve been …
In an attempt to deploy excess capital, some major European insurers have developed overseas operations over the past several years but are now taking a more cautious approach, as not all overseas strategies have proven successful, according to a new …
Swiss Re AG’s business unit Admin Re agreed to acquire Guardian Holdings Europe Ltd. from buyout firm Cinven for 1.6 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) to increase its portfolio of U.K. life-insurance policies. The deal will give Admin Re an additional …
When it comes to finding earnings growth in 2015, the challenge facing the global insurance industry will be uneven economic conditions in many parts of the world, according to a report released by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Entitled “Pursuing …
Brit plc Chief Executive Officer Mark Cloutier said an excess of insurance industry capital will force more executives to sell or merge their companies. Cloutier said Brit’s planned $1.88 billion sale to Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., which was …
Swiss Re Ltd. Chief Financial Officer David Cole expects consolidation in the reinsurance market as oversupply of capital squeezes prices. “Selling property and casualty reinsurance is becoming more difficult for us as well,” Cole, 53, said in an interview in …
Mike McGavick, CEO of XL Group, told UK-based risk managers attending this year’s Airmic [Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry] conference in Birmingham: “It’s a great time to be in your jobs, there is great opportunity for you …
