Hardening insurance rates and increased profit expectations propelled Willis Group Holdings’ initial public offering price well beyond the expected $10-$12...
International & Reinsurance News
A British High Court Judge yesterday approved Friends Provident’s demutualization plan. The company is now set to convert to public...
NRMA, Australia’s largest insurer, has apparently weathered the management shakeup which began last April and saw the departure of its...
In another sign of good times for the market in insurance equities, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown announced that analyst Alain...
The London Stock Exchange halted trading in the shares of Britain’s Independent Insurance Group plc pending the announcement of a...
Meetings in Shanghai between U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick and China’s Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng have apparently produced “a...
Willis Group Holdings released a prospectus in connection with its public share offering giving compensation figures for CEO Joseph Plumeri,...
A report from Swiss Re Canada’s assistant vice-president Glenn McGillivray highlights an increase of 8 points in loss ratios in...
Switzerland’s Winterthur Insurance Group became the first private corporate donor to the United Nations fund to fight the AIDS epidemic,...
Holland’s ING announced it had sold 14.7 million shares of its holdings in the Dutch-Belgian financial group Fortis, raising approximately...