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Analyst warns of pitfalls of Validus/IPC deal

15 June 2009

A merger between IPC Holdings and Validus Holdings would result in a firm with too high a concentration of catastrophe-exposed business, an equity analyst has warned.

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A merger between IPC Holdings and Validus Holdings would result in a firm with too high a concentration of catastrophe-exposed business, an equity analyst has warned.

Following the collapse of an agreement between IPC and Max...


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CEOs won’t move prices until they see blood in the street and have the concern that some of it might be theirs.

Tom Bolt, director of underwriting performance at Lloyd’s of London