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• Mitsui Sumitomo to acquire 15% of specialty underwriter W.R. Berkley

  28 March 2025

  Japanese insurer cites profits, diversification and capital efficiency as reasons for M&A

• T&D Holdings to pay $800m as part of Viridium buyer consortium

  21 March 2025

  Japanese group now present in European and US legacy life consolidation markets

• Consortium of insurers and asset managers to take over Germany's Viridium

  19 March 2025

  Allianz, BlackRock, T&D Holdings, Hannover Re and Generali back closed-book life consolidator

• Solvency II risk margin reform liberates at least £13bn of capital for UK insurers

  13 May 2024

  InsuranceERM analysis of top 20 insurers reveal companies with largest savings

• BlackRock rings alarm bells on US P&C insurance

  08 December 2023

  Asset manager says it has "sizeable short" on the industry, as woes resemble 1980s

• Insurance Risk Data announces 2023 Bermuda investment outsourcing report

  21 November 2022

  Research contains over 120 pages of analysis, exhibits and data

• Blockchain for investing lagging underwriting use globally, BlackRock finds

  27 September 2022

  More than 30% of respondents said they deployed blockchain for underwriting activities

• NY Comptroller's message to BlackRock highlights divisions in US green politics

  23 September 2022

  BlackRock not green enough, warns NYC, but others say the firm is too green

• Aviva halves credit risk exposure to Blackrock

  03 August 2017

  Reduces significant counterparty risk arising from unit-linked contracts offered by Blackrock to Aviva's UK life customers

• UK actuaries revamp research agenda, targetting big data in health modelling

  05 April 2016

  IFoA underwrites £3.1m of global research