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Towers Watson shakes up manager research teams

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... fund stream, will take head up the newly created "Diversifying Strategies" stream, which includes macro hedge funds, reinsurance, systematic hedge fund strategies, multi-strategy/multi-asset funds, real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, timber and ...

FSC appoints AMP exec to the board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... investment, pensions and platforms business portfolio. Prior to joining AMP, Blight-Johnston was managing director of RGA Reinsurance Company of Australia and before that was chief financial officer and appointed actuary for Asteron Life. She was previously ...

Reinsurance specialist boosts Australian team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter has expanded its Australian operations team with six new hires and new risk advice solutions. The new appointments will be based in Sydney and will allow the firm to expand its offering from a traditional ...

Insurers now in full recovery mode

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... natural disasters that saw floods, bushfires, earthquakes and tsunamis scar the Asia-Pacific region, the insurance and reinsurance industry is close to recovery. With the great majority of short-tail claims now settled, insurer capital is returning to ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... Plenum Australia's managing director Daniel Nickles. The group grew out of Zurich when it became established as a reinsurance hub in the 1990s. There are a only a handful of group's globally that provide ILS products and while there are larger players ...

Life insurers sponsor mental illness awareness day

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013

ClearView reports 92% drop in profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... insurance business was favourable in FY13. Given the current small size of the life insurance portfolio and the historic reinsurance arrangements in place, material claims volatility from period to period is to be expected." On the positive side, ClearView ...

APRA to focus on reinsurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will focus on the performance of reinsurance groups as a way to prevent the negative effects on the insurance industry if a reinsurer was downgraded or failed. APRA senior manager Kate Bible said ...

Reporting season reveals insurance black spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... coming down as the market gets more competitive and people want better value," he said. Losses of $300 million in Reinsurance Group of America (RGA)'s Australian operations as a result of a spike in TPD claims have also sounded alarm bells within the ...

Suncorp Life set for overhaul after 76% profit plunge

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... returns on capital by changing the business mix, the commission structures, controlling costs and increasing the use of reinsurance. Suncorp Life claims that its results have been affected by the economic uncertainty, the regulatory changes across the ...