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Run-Off Specialist Compre to Buy Allianz IARD’s Pool Legacy Business

Compre, the independent insurance and reinsurance legacy specialist, has agreed to acquire Allianz IARD’s Ridgwell Fox & Partners (RFP) pool legacy reinsurance business for an undisclosed sum. RFP is a reinsurance pool containing run-off liabilities of Allianz IARD and five …

Run-off Specialist Compre Completes Restructuring to Reduce Cost Base

Compre, the London-based independent insurance and reinsurance legacy specialist, announced the completion of a group-wide restructure, designed to reduce its cost base in preparation for further acquisitions. The run-off consolidator has so far undertaken three acquisitions in 2016 and will …

Legacy Specialist Compre Arranges Deals with QBE and German Mutual

Compre, the London-based insurance and reinsurance legacy specialist, announced the signing of an agreement to acquire QBE’s share of the Ridgwell Fox & Partners’ (RFP) pool legacy reinsurance business. The transaction is structured as a loss portfolio transfer, to be …

Lloyd’s Insurers Lead New Trend to Sell Legacy Portfolios: Willis Towers Watson

The majority of Lloyd’s businesses (77 percent) are considering legacy portfolio disposals, with more than half of firms based in western Europe (53 percent) expecting to make at least one sale in the next three years, according to Willis Towers …

Allianz Transfers $1.1B of Policy Obligations to Reinsurer Enstar, Limiting US Risks

Allianz SE, Europe’s biggest insurer, struck a deal to limit risks in the U.S. by transferring policy obligations to reinsurer Enstar Group Ltd. Enstar will assume net reinsurance reserves of about $1.1 billion and cover half of a book of …

Run-Off Specialty Firm Catalina Agrees to Buy Allianz Suisse Re from Allianz SE

Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. announced its wholly owned Swiss subsidiary, Glacier Reinsurance AG, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Allianz Suisse Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG from Allianz SE. Allianz Suisse Re is a Swiss regulated reinsurer incorporated in 2007 with the …

Aviva in $8.76 Billion Deal to Buy Friends Life after Pensions Shake-up

British insurer Aviva said on Friday it had agreed terms on a possible deal to buy rival Friends Life for £5.6 billion [$8.76 billion], as British pension reform puts pressure on insurance companies to find new business. Pension providers are …

White Mountains Acquires 2 PICO Holdings Insurers in Run-Off

White Mountains Solutions Holding Co. , a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and the group’s specialist runoff acquisition operation, has agreed to acquire Physicians Insurance of Ohio and Citation Insurance Co. from PICO Holdings, Inc. Both …

Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Completes Residential Loss Control Acquisition

Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd announced that following regulatory approval from the Colorado and Hawaii Departments of Insurance, it has completed the acquisition of Residential Loss Control Holdings, LLC (RLCH), which owns two risk retention groups, National Home Insurance Company (NHIC) …

Bermuda’s Catalina Holdings to Acquire Residential Loss Control Holdings

Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Catalina Echo Limited, signed a definitive merger agreement on August 22, 2011 to acquire Residential Loss Control Holdings, LLC (RLCH). Catalina specilizes in offering “finality and immediate capital release” …