Archive

  • Friends Life awards £500m infrastructure mandate to MetLife

    13 November 2013

    Infrastructure assets will be long-term UK based senior loans

  • Prudential Financial accepts US SIFI designation

    21 October 2013

    Joins AIG on "too big to fail" list

  • Axa places €350m cat bond

    16 October 2013

    The windstorm catastrophe bond is the largest euro-denominated issuance to date

  • Monsanto pays $1bn for weather risk firm

    03 October 2013

    The Climate Corporation's agricultural analytics were the attraction

  • Swiss investment fund to provide regulatory capital to smaller insurers

    12 September 2013

    Twelve Capital sees opportunity in banks' withdrawal from lending

  • Munich Re acquires RenRe's weather risk unit

    03 September 2013

    RenRe Energy Advisors sold for "mid double-digit million" dollars

  • ILS market set to broaden in scope

    30 August 2013

    Lower spreads no barrier to market growth, says Aon Benfield Securities

  • MetLife in line for systemically important designation

    18 July 2013

    CEO says firm is no threat to financial system

  • New capital muscles into the reinsurance business

    12 July 2013

    Hedge funds, pension funds and wealth managers are among the newer investors reshaping the way that reinsurance operates and prices risk. These non-traditional investors like the returns available and the lack of correlation with other capital markets. But do they fully appreciate the risks? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Twelve Capital hires leading risk management academic

    12 July 2013

    Markus Stricker joins Swiss insurance investment firm