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  • QBE exits non-core North American business in $1.6bn LPT transactions

    09 August 2024

    Enstar and RiverStone are assuming risks, and some assets of Australian underwriter

  • QBE hikes natcat allowance for 2024, even though perils costs in 2023 fell

    16 February 2024

    CEO says he prefers a natural catastrophe budget QBE is less likely to overstep

  • Claims inflation? What claims inflation?

    26 August 2022

    Rising costs of goods and labour may be squeezing underwriting results in Europe and North America, but for many insurers in Asia, claims cost inflation is a world away in every sense. David Walker reports

  • QBE sets up working groups to monitor claims inflation

    11 August 2022

    The Australian insurer said it is experiencing inflation of 6% to 7% in its business

  • QBE's reinsurance expenses increase 44%

    18 February 2022

    Group returns to profit as Covid impacts become a net positive in 2021

  • Apac re/insurers welcome the alternative

    29 December 2021

    Regulators in Asia have been busy creating frameworks for insurers to transfer risk to capital markets investors. Re/insurers are keen to tap this alternative source of capital, if the structures are right. David Walker reports

  • QBE shares dive as claims, costs and Covid-19 trigger profit warning

    18 December 2020

    But chief executive increasingly confident about northern hemisphere pricing developments

  • QBE appoints CRO in management shakeup

    12 April 2018

    Peter Grewal will join QBE from Swiss Re