Archive

  • Standard Life concludes two BPAs with Halma

    07 November 2024

    Transactions together worth £250m and secure benefits of 2,200 members

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • Chart of the Week: IMAs between Bermuda's re/insurers and asset managers revealed in forthcoming research

    13 September 2024

    Terms of Sirius Point's redeeming from Third Point is one part of Insurance Risk Data's study

  • Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

    15 May 2024

    Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

  • Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

    08 May 2024

    Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?

    12 April 2024

    With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's

  • Apollo CFO appointed to Lloyd's syndicate executive directorships

    09 April 2024

    Appointments were pending regulatory nods last week

  • Chart of the Week - Lloyd's syndicates and illiquid investments

    05 April 2024

    Analysis reveals which syndicates like 'Level 3' assets most...and how much Apollo's syndicates have