October 29, 2015
Bermuda-headquartered Arch Capital Group Ltd. reported net income available to common shareholders for the third quarter ending 2015 was $74.5 million, or $0.60 per share, compared to $223.2 million, or $1.64 per share, for the same period last year. For …
August 3, 2015
EXOR SpA, the Agnelli family’s investment company, agreed to buy PartnerRe Ltd. for about $6.9 billion in its biggest single acquisition in more than a century after the reinsurer scrapped a deal with rival AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. EXOR, which …
July 31, 2015
Arch Capital Group Ltd., headquartered in Bermuda, reported second quarter net income of $110.3 million, or $0.88 per share, compared to $202.5 million, or $1.48 per share, for the 2014 second quarter. Net income available to Arch common shareholders for …
June 19, 2015
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. has not communicated with any potential acquirer, including Arch Capital Ltd., since it engaged in merger talks with competitor PartnerRe Ltd last fall, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The Financial Times wrote on …
May 19, 2015
Bermuda-based Arch Reinsurance Ltd., a member of Arch Capital Group Ltd., has completed the acquisition of Gulf Reinsurance Ltd. Gulf Re, a specialty reinsurer based in the Dubai International Financial Centre, was founded jointly by Arch and the Gulf Investment …
February 26, 2015
Brit plc Chief Executive Officer Mark Cloutier said an excess of insurance industry capital will force more executives to sell or merge their companies. Cloutier said Brit’s planned $1.88 billion sale to Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., which was …
October 29, 2014
Hedge funds are muscling their way into the market to share the cost of cleaning up after natural catastrophes, but skeptics are questioning whether they will stick around ahead of the next “big one” as underwriting returns fall. Hedge funds …
December 20, 2012
Bermuda-based insurers Arch Capital Group Ltd and PartnerRe Ltd. Have released their respective preliminary estimates of losses incurred from Hurricane Sandy. Arch said its preliminary estimate of losses “ranges between $170 million and $240 million, net of reinsurance and the …
July 27, 2012
Selected earnings highlights from Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group for the second quarter and the first six months of 2012 are as follows: Q2 2012 Q2 2011 Gross premiums written ———— $1.051813 bn $911.939 mn Net premiums written ————— $820.233 mn …
July 26, 2012
The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd. announced that Mark D. Lyons will assume the position of Executive Vice President and CFO of the Company, effective September 1, 2012. He joined Arch in 2002 and currently serves as Chairman and CEO …