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No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... assets is so furious that in the last few months they have sold three of their US broker-dealers, transferred their US reinsurance business to RGA Inc, sold their Asian private banking business to OCBC, sold their Swiss private banking business to Julius ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... catastrophic events, investors are much better off investing in insurance-linked strategies rather than on insurance and reinsurance stocks. For example, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many insurance and reinsurance stocks lost as much as 80 per cent ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... clients, has raised $980 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds, hedge funds and fund of funds are actively seeking non-correlated ...

Zurich manager wins Aon Benfield Scholarship

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... segment development manager at Zurich, will travel to London in September to attend the Aon Benfield Global Clients Reinsurance Seminar for two weeks. The scholarship's judging panel also awarded special commendations to Andrew Bojkowski of APRA and ...

AMP awards $43m mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... part-owned manager, Nephila Capital. Nephila Capital is an alternative investment manager specialising in catastrophe reinsurance. The firm invests across the range of insurance-linked securities such as insurance and reinsurance contracts, industry ...

CommInsure signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... Insurance Company, Australia's Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Zurich Financial Services Australia, Germany's Munich Reinsurance AG and UK's Standard Life. The insurer's clients, TWUSUPER and Vision Super, are also UN PRI signatories.

Life insurance too complicated: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... purchase [life insurance] and stay with it," said Gerard Kerr, ING Life Risk head of marketing, retail products and reinsurance. Whether or not someone uses a financial adviser didn't seem to make much difference after the survey found one in three of ...

Top guns tackle industry challenges

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... to the challenges that have long confounded the investment industry. Renee Knapp, a senior claims consultant at RGA Reinsurance was the overall winner of the 2008 Deloitte/IFSA Future Leaders Award for her paper that proposed a ten-point action plan ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... the heart of more troubled waters is the issue of depleting assets of insurance firms. "There isn't an insurance or reinsurance company that I'm aware of that hasn't had some impact from the depletion on their asset side... they've all been [affected] ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... piloted for 12 months. The project partners include SWIFT, the global insurance standards organisation ACORD and the reinsurance companies Swiss Re, Munich Re and Scor. Rounding up the team, reinsurance brokers Aon, Benfield and Willis have also signed ...