Archive

  • US life-annuity industry's H1 net income dives by 66%

    02 September 2020

    Jackson National's ceded coinsurance agreement with Athene Life Re drove the decline

  • Principal Financial Group appoints Ken McCullum as CRO

    21 August 2020

    He succeeds Julia Lawler who is retiring after 36 years at Principal

  • Legal & General completes £530m bulk annuity deal

    19 August 2020

    Transfers risk from Siemens pension fund

  • Legal & General completes £70m ICI buy-in deal

    13 August 2020

    It marks the insurer's ninth transaction with the pension fund

  • Everest Re's H1 profit halves after suffering "3 C's"

    06 August 2020

    Covid-19, catastrophe losses and civil unrest culminate

  • Comment: The grave matter of Covid-19 death statistics

    31 July 2020

    Cintia Cheong looks at the reliability of excess deaths

  • Tropical storm Hanna hits Texas

    27 July 2020

    Officials are also monitoring Hurricane Douglas near Hawaii

  • US Covid-19 cases to hit 6m by September

    24 July 2020

    Oliver Wyman warns it will take multiple weeks to bring the number of active cases down

  • Lloyd's approves syndicate to insure Covid-19 vaccine distribution

    23 July 2020

    Syndicate 1796 is part of the new Global Health Risk Facility (GHRF) at Lloyd's

  • Zurich provides free Covid-19 antibody testing for UK employees

    13 July 2020

    Employees will not be required to disclose their test result and testing is optional