How AXA Wooed and Won XL Group in $15.3B Takeover Deal March 6, 2018 By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini , Sonali Basak, Aaron Kirchfeld and Manuel Baigorri AXA SA’s pursuit of its biggest ever takeover really got serious at a romantic hotel on the shores of Lake...
XL Group CEO McGavick Comments on Firm’s Agreed Purchase by France’s AXA March 5, 2018 XL Group’s CEO Mike McGavick has issued the following statement to clients and brokers in response to today’s announcement that...
France’s AXA to Acquire P/C Insurer XL Group for $15.3 Billion March 4, 2018 By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini and Matthew Monks AXA SA agreed to buy XL Group Ltd. for $15.3 billion in cash, seeking to capture a bigger slice of...
XL Group Estimates $1.48B in Q3 Natural Catastrophe Losses October 12, 2017 XL Group Ltd. announced its preliminary estimate of net losses of approximately $1.48 billion from third quarter natural catastrophes. Included...
Re/Insurers Need to ‘Reinvent’ Products to Participate in New Economy: XL’s McGavick September 16, 2016 By L.S. Howard The re/insurance industry needs to innovate and become more efficient. It is facing more risk, but premiums are declining. Some...
What University of Washington’s Climate Risk and Insurance Summit Has in Common with Paris May 26, 2016 By Don Jergler It may not be a climate change summit for the ages like last year’s Paris meeting in which world leaders...
Monte Carlo 2015: Reinsurers Reexamine How They Do Business September 21, 2015 By Charles E. Boyle The annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo, Monaco traditionally focuses on one or two signatory concerns within the industry....