Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) News

Aspen MGA to Acquire Midlands Management’s Texas Personal Auto Book

Aspen Managing General Agency (MGA) and Midlands Management of Texas announced that Aspen MGA has acquired the renewal rights of the Texas personal auto business currently managed by Midlands Management. Richard Bird, chief operating officer of Midlands Management, commented saying …

Reinsurance Broker TigerRisk Hires Ex-AIG, Hanover Exec. Bensinger as Adviser

TigerRisk Partners has hired insurance-industry veteran Steven Bensinger, who oversaw American International Group Inc.’s finances during the early part of the global credit crisis, to advise clients. Bensinger, joining as a wave of consolidation reshapes insurers, will provide advice to …

Willis Re Report: Capital Growth Eases as M&A, Capital Mgmt. Accelerate

In its most recent Reinsurance Market Report Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings plc, notes: “Faced with significant over-capacity and widespread pricing pressure, the growth in global capital dedicated to reinsurance has stabilized during the first half …

UK Broker Market ‘Stagnant;’ M&A, but No Real Growth: Finaccord Study

Two new research studies issued by market research firm Finaccord put a value of £4.64 billion [$7.234 billion] on the size of the total non-life insurance broking market in the UK in 2014, up marginally from £4.55 billion [$7.09 billion] …

Xuber Reinsurance Survey Focuses on Regulation and M&A

Many in the reinsurance industry feel the business is becoming over-regulated and London is getting expensive as the center of the industry Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, recently released its second wave of results from its global reinsurance survey on …

Reinsurance Execs See Market Adjusting to New Realities

Aon Benfield’s Reinsurance Market Analysis describes the participants as having “reached the end of a 15 year journey, featuring chronological stages of alternative capital’s significance, completion and finally disruption.” From the interviews with two reinsurance industry executives that seems to …

XL Appoints Allen to Head New Financial Lines Team M&A Division

XL Group announced it has added a Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Insurance division to its Financial Lines business and appointed Tim Allen to head the business line as Sr. VP, Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions Insurance. XL responded to …