The return of a pro-market reformer to India’s finance ministry has cheered investors and contributed to a market rally, but Palaniappan Chidambaram will need both political deftness and some luck to tackle the problems dragging the economy down. Faced with …
The latest report on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market from Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, reveals that “catastrophe bond issuance for the period reached $2.1billion, as investors continued to …
London-based international reinsurance broker UIB has overhauled its property team with a view to doubling the division’s revenues. UIB appointed Mark Ritson, formerly a UIB Energy director, to head the property division and to spearhead its growth. The team has …
Newly released data from Finaccord, a London-based market research consultancy specializing in financial services, reveals that the market for commercial non-life insurance broking reached a value of €9.89 billion [$12.165 billion] in commissions and fees in 2011. The report said …
Figures released by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that there were 739 international insurance entities licensed by the Island at the end of May 2012, compared to 687 at the end of December 2011. “There have been 63 …
Swiss Re’s latest sigma study concludes that “global overall premiums declined 0.8 percent in real terms in 2011. While non-life premiums expanded 1.9 percent on solid economic growth in emerging markets and selective rate increases in some advanced markets, global …
As Europe considers a leap towards closer integration to try to save the euro single currency, it resembles the biblical Tower of Babel – unable to complete an ambitious project because the residents don’t speak the same political and economic …
The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain agreed on Friday on a €130 billion ($163 billion) package to try to revive economic growth in Europe but differed over whether and how to launch joint bonds to combat the euro …
On the heels of the decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to maintain the target fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points Swiss Re’s Chief Economist, Kurt Karl, commented: “The US economy has been weak recently, but is …
Greece’s election has averted the immediate threat of a euro break-up, but it does nothing to restore the magic ingredient missing in the European and global economies – confidence. Investors and corporate executives are paid to calculate risk. But they …
