Don’t be too quick to write off traditional reinsurance — it has some important advantages over the new wave of alternative capital.
That is the view of Validus Holdings Ltd CEO Ed Noonan, speaking in...
Bermuda re/insurer Validus Holdings Ltd last night reported second-quarter profit of $153.4 million.
The company’s net income surged fivefold from the second quarter of 2013 when significant catastrop...
Shares of Bermuda reinsurer Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd fell more than four percent yesterday after the company’s second-quarter earnings fell short of analysts’ expectations.
Platinum reported...
It may be a case of now or never for Aspen Insurance Holdings shareholders considering whether or not they should support Endurance Specialty Holdings’ hostile takeover bid.
Yesterday, Endurance chair...
Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd and Hamilton Re have entered into an underwriting partnership.
Iron-Starr, a Bermuda-based specialty lines insurance managing general underwriting agency formed in 2009 th...
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd’s proposed merger with Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd makes strategic sense — but Endurance should raise its offer, given the strength of Aspen’s latest financial result...
Bermuda-based reinsurer Ariel Holdings Ltd has agreed to be sold to Brazil’s Grupo BTG Pactual SA, largest independent investment bank in Latin America, for an undisclosed sum.
Ariel’s CEO Tom Hulst t...
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd last night gave early guidance on its second-quarter results — hours after its hostile takeover pursuer Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd criticised its “underperformance”....
Newly published research by the US Congress claims that 76 companies have shifted their corporate domiciles away from the US since 1983 — one of them being Ace Ltd.
Such domicile shifts are referred t...
The April through June period set a new quarterly record for the volume of catastrophe bonds issued.
According to a report by Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA), $4.5 billion of non-life catastr...
