November 18, 2015
Insurer Talanx AG’s $122 million loss from port explosions at Tianjin, one of China’s worst industrial disasters, takes the net hit incurred by insurers across Europe, the U.S., Bermuda and Asia to almost $2 billion, according to filings by 26 …
November 5, 2015
Bonds sold by Mexico to shield it from the cost of repairing hurricane damage are closer to paying out after the biggest storm ever measured in the Americas struck the country last month, Standard & Poor’s said. S&P cut its …
October 29, 2015
Swiss Re reported consolidated net income of $3.659 billion, a 12 percent increase, for the first nine months of 2015, compared to $3.255 billion for the first 9 months of 2014. $1.399 billion was earned in the third quarter. Swiss …
October 29, 2015
Swiss Re AG, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, posted a 13 percent increase in third-quarter profit after allowing for $250 million in losses from the chemical warehouse explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin in mid- August. Net income climbed $1.4 …
October 20, 2015
Swiss Re announced that Urs Baertschi has been appointed to the new position of President of Reinsurance, Latin America, effective January 1, 2016. He will have overall responsibility for Swiss Re’s reinsurance business in Latin America region, which includes Mexico, …
October 13, 2015
Chinese insurers are pursuing strategic tie-ups and outright mergers and acquisitions to tap Western expertise. They are keen for knowledge on products, pricing and technology as a nascent Chinese market for health and property insurance takes off, industry executives say. …
October 1, 2015
The number of extreme weather events increased more than four times from only 38 events in 1980 to 174 in 2014, according to The World Energy Council. The report warns that not all energy infrastructure is prepared for extreme weather, …
September 24, 2015
Representatives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Global Seminar on Disaster Risk Financing fostered an in-depth debate on the development of effective approaches to the financial management of disaster risks, in …
September 23, 2015
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 …
September 17, 2015
Politicians must act to cap global warming when they meet at a United Nations summit at the end of the year as the financial and humanitarian consequences of natural catastrophes become ever clearer, reinsurers meeting at an industry conference said. …