Archive

  • Berkshire Hathaway Specialty gains Singapore licence

    08 December 2014

    Hires executives from AIG and Catlin

  • Berkshire Hathaway's insurance business pales after bumper 2013

    04 August 2014

    Earnings from underwriting fall 40% in first half

  • Liberty Mutual issues bond to pay Berkshire bill

    22 July 2014

    Funds of $750m will help meet $3bn premium

  • Liberty Mutual agrees $6.5bn cover with Berkshire

    18 July 2014

    Asbestos deal will strengthen financial position

  • Gen Re's Tad Montross: why we need Solvency III

    09 April 2014

    Solvency II has focused too much on modelling and should be revisited, says Gen Re CEO Tad Montross. He tells Sarfraz Thind about "model mania", risk culture and how to run a reinsurer in a chronically soft market

  • Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway would clean-up following major cat

    04 March 2014

    Climate change not influencing cat risk calculations – yet

  • RSA's £775m rights issue at core of capital recovery plan

    27 February 2014

    Investments sold and disposals planned as 2013 results disappoint

  • Investments dent Lloyd's results

    26 September 2013

    John Nelson notes growing pressure on premium rates

  • Underwriting profits double at Berkshire Hathaway

    05 August 2013

    US re/insurance giant loses $189m from European floods

  • Re/insurers struggle to raise investment income

    07 May 2013

    Underwriting performance drives improvement in first quarter results