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Ratings

  • Moody’s affirms The Hartford ratings 18 March 2010

    Moody’s believes uncertainty exists regarding the capital adequacy of the organisation's life insurance operation, both in terms of its investment portfolio and its variable annuity liabilities.

  • AM Best reviews Tenet Insurance ratings 11 March 2010

    AM Best is reviewing the financial strength ratings of Tenet Insurance with positive implications. Tenet has A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of a-.

  • Moody's affirms Prudential, outlook negative 02 March 2010

    Moody's has affirmed the insurance financial strength ratings of Prudential and its subsidiaries following the UK insurer’s $35.5bn acquisition of American International Group’s Asian life insurance unit.

  • S&P cuts AIG consumer arm rating 25 February 2010

    AIG’s consumer lending arm, American General Finance, has had its credit rating cut four levels to B, as it continued to sell assets to meet debt payments.

Surveys

  • Vote for the Reactions London Awards 2010 18 February 2010

    Reactions will be recognising the best companies, teams and individuals in the London market with our Reactions London Awards 2010 programme, and we need your help. Have your say now!

  • Rising stars of the insurance industry revealed 12 January 2010

    Reactions canvassed executive search firms worldwide to produce a list of who they believe will be the top leaders of the future. Here are the names they came up with.

Capital raising

M&A

ILS data

  • Canada gets catastrophe claims service 18 March 2010

    For the first time the new independent claims service, PCS-Canada, will allow primary insurance companies, reinsurers, brokers, and others to receive industry wide data on Canadian catastrophes, including man-made and extreme weather events.

  • Nephila cat fund raises $340m 10 March 2010

    The catastrophe reinsurance fund of Nephila Capital has secured $340m from 11 UK institutions.

  • Swiss Re to issue first Perils-based cat bond 09 March 2010

    Swiss Re is preparing a new catastrophe bond, which will be the first cat bond to use Perils AG as a benchmark for losses.

  • Convergence Quarterly: ILS outlook for 2010 12 February 2010

    Fresh off the back of the busiest ever fourth quarter for cat bonds, insurance-linked securities activity is predicted to be high in 2010. Reactions' Convergence Quarterly section includes all the cat bond data from 2009.

Stock price info

Poll

Do you believe efforts to set up a New York Insurance Exchange by the state's insurance department will succeed?

Yes, and it is a good idea
31%
Yes, but it is a bad idea
3%
No, but it is a good idea
43%
No, and it is a bad idea
20%
Not sure
3%