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  • Abir appoints chair for 2019-20

    09 January 2019

    Axis Capital president and CEO replaces RenRe's Kevin O'Donnell

  • MetLife promotes Khalaf to president and CEO

    09 January 2019

    Michael Khalaf will take over from Steven Kandarian at the beginning of May

  • China Taiping unveils life insurance business in Singapore

    09 January 2019

    State-owned Chinese insurer already writes general insurance in city-state

  • Three insurers lose responsibility for Singapore's ElderShield scheme

    09 January 2019

    City-state’s ElderShield programme will fall into public administration from 2021

  • Bank of England reveals doubling of Part VII transfer requests ahead of Brexit

    08 January 2019

    Data disclosed in freedom of information request from InsuranceERM

  • Munich Re puts 2018 nat cat insured losses at $80bn

    08 January 2019

    The deadliest disaster of 2018 was a seven-metre tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Palu

  • US life firms under pressure from accounting overhaul

    08 January 2019

    It has been billed as the biggest change in US accounting rules for decades. But reportage of the new US GAAP LDTI standard remains sparse. Since coming into effect in August, with an implementation deadline of 2021, companies have been scrambling to assess the impact. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Insurtech weekly: Didi Chuxing, AIG, Democrance, Dinghy, Kingsbridge Group, Bowtie

    08 January 2019

    InsuranceERM rounds up the latest developments in the fast-moving world of insurtech

  • Sydney hailstorm losses soar past A$670m

    08 January 2019

    The latest estimate is more than five times greater than the ICA’s previous prediction

  • Hannover Re and HDI's specialty insurer sets sail with €1.2bn premiums

    08 January 2019

    HDI Global Specialty plans to take risks that rivals shun