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Macquarie Life appoints national underwriting manager

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... leading Macquarie Life's underwriting team. Bertasso previously held roles with CommInsure, AMP and with global reinsurer, Swiss Re. "Marcello has a wealth of experience in the life insurance and reinsurance industries, which sees him bring to Macquarie ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... consume 20 per cent of the market," said Meller. Neil Sprackling, director and head of client markets life and health, Swiss Re added that there will be a necessary expanding of talent in the insurance market. "We need to get on a recruitment drive to ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... reportedly warned holders of Japan catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) could get hit. Reinsurers such as Flagstone Re, SCOR, Swiss Re, and Munich Re sell catastrophe bonds to investors to reduce their own risk with 10 catastrophe bonds worth more than $1.5 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... posted heavy losses, with Munich Re losing 4.28 percent to 111.75 euros, while Frankfurt's DAX index dropped 1.16 percent. Swiss Re fell 3.54 percent to 51.70 Swiss francs, meanwhile. Hannover Re, which says it is the world's third biggest re-insurance ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South Africa and worked for Swiss Re in number of key roles, including chief underwriter. AMP's director of wealth protection products Michael Paff said 'head ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, Nomura, Sumitomo Mitsui Insurance groups: Aegon, Allianz, Aviva, Axa, Swiss Re, Zurich According to the Financial Times, the FSB will ask these institutions "to start drawing up so-called living wills ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
2009 will be the Year of Africa if Pope Benedict the XVI has his way. Chances are, given the way the global community is now suffering from its greed-infected wounds, he may not have long to wait. Despite all the technological advances, medical discoveries ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... 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 as project partners. ...

Schroders buys Swiss Re

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Global asset management firm Schroders has confirmed it is acquiring Swiss third party fund manager Swiss Re Asset Management Funds (Switzerland) AG. The sale will see Schroders scoop up Swiss Re's nearly $1.97 billion of asset under management as at ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...