SiriusPoint News

SiriusPoint Announces Partnership with P/C MGA Eaton Gate

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, and Eaton Gate, a London-based managing general underwriter (MGU), announced a new partnership. Eaton Gate writes in excess of £100 million GWP through its group of managing general agents (MGA) and is …

People Moves: Everest Insurance Int’l Taps Brionne and Benson From Chubb, Promotes Mah; SiriusPoint Hires TMK’s Kattan as Global Head of Ceded Reinsurance

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Insurance International and SiriusPoint. A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Insurance Int’l Taps Chubb’s Brionne, Benson, Promotes Mah Everest Insurance International, an insurance division of Everest Group …

SiriusPoint Completes $1.3B Reinsurance Loss Portfolio Transfer With Compre

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based re/insurer, announced it has completed a ground-up loss portfolio transfer (LPT) of a portfolio of primarily reinsurance business with the legacy acquisition specialist Compre. This is the second LPT the companies have partnered on. Compre assumed …

Serious Change Underway at SiriusPoint

SiriusPoint has seen a cluster of challenges over the past two years—ranging from an incomplete merger integration to persistent underwriting and investment losses to several leadership shake-ups. First there was the merger. Third Point Re merged with Sirius International Insurance …

The Pros and Cons of Going Private

In the days before hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb decided to drop the buyout of SiriusPoint, Carrier Management asked analysts at AM Best and Fitch Ratings about the pros and cons of taking insurers and reinsurers private. Sridhar Manyem, senior …

Former Hiscox CEO Masojada Named Chair of SiriusPoint

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced the appointment of Bronek Masojada as chair of the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Masojada, who joined the board on May 2 this year, is an insurance market veteran with …

People Moves: SiriusPoint Names Lopez as CTO, Succeeding Siry; IQUW Appoints MacDonald and Hennessey to Lead Property; Chaucer Promotes Tighe to Head of ESG

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three re/insurers SiriusPoint, IQUW and Chaucer. A summary of these new hires follows here. SiriusPoint Names Lopez as CTO, Succeeding Siry SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced that …

Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Drops Buyout of $1.5B Re/insurer SiriusPoint

Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb said he’s no longer exploring an acquisition of specialist insurance underwriter SiriusPoint Ltd. Loeb held exploratory discussions with Bermuda-based SiriusPoint about a potential deal to take the company private, but the parties weren’t able to …

People Moves: BMS Re Promotes Wheeler to President; Arch Names Heads of Onshore, Offshore Energy; SiriusPoint Appoints Former Hiscox CEO Masojada to Board

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at BMS Re, Arch Insurance International, and SiriusPoint. A summary of these new hires follows here. Wheeler Promoted to President of BMS Re BMS Re, the specialty reinsurance arm of the global …

Third Point’s Loeb Looks to Take Re/insurer SiriusPoint Private

Activist investor Daniel Loeb is looking to take insurance firm SiriusPoint Ltd. private, the founder of hedge fund Third Point said in a regulatory filing, sending the shares of the company up 13% in early trading on Wednesday. The billionaire …