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Year of the cat: US

Winter 2011

2011 is ‘year of the tornado' for the US market… Read more

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Year of the cat: Japan

Winter 2011

Reinsurers have been racked by Zenkyoren losses, but ultimately it has proved a false dawn for an event-driven market turn… Read more

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Year of the cat: New Zealand

Winter 2011

Never in the field of reinsurance was so much paid to so few… Read more

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Year of the cat: Thailand

Winter 2011

For the third year in a row one of the defining features of the 2011 loss experience has been the absence of a major US windstorm hit during the official Atlantic hurricane season… Read more

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2011: The year of the cats

Winter 2011

$90bn+ of catastrophe claims have tested (re)insurers, but if renewals for US commercial lines are anything to go by, reinsurers may yet benefit from increased rates… Read more

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M&A: Transatlantic plumps for Alleghany

Winter 2011

Having fought tooth and claw to escape a hostile takeover from Validus, Transatlantic Re's negotiated sale to P&C insurer Alleghany may have guaranteed the firm's future… Read more

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Fuelling up…

Autumn 2011

Disposable reinsurance is returning as underwriters wait for the markets to ignite. IQ takes a look at what's hot and what's not in capital terms… Read more

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Insurers feel the sting

Autumn 2011

With primary insurers lashed by further deterioration of Q1 cat losses, reinsurers would be unwise to allow the hurricane season to distract them… Read more

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No transubstantiation

Autumn 2011

In most sectors and at most times, a multi-party hostile takeover battle would be something to set pulses racing… Read more

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9/11: Ten years on…

Autumn 2011

It's a human instinct to try and reach out for something positive from a shocking event, however hideous… Read more

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