Hints and tips:
...So even more cash will now be required as security if pension schemes want to ensure hedging ratios — the amount of their assets that are protected — are restored to their target levels....
...Buffett was light on additions over the same period, disclosing only a new investment in insurance broker Aon worth $943m. Last year, Berkshire invested in rival broker Marsh & McLennan....
...Semiconductors are essentially the brain of technological devices, so world leaders are on high alert over national security concerns, especially if they’re being produced or managed elsewhere . . . say,...
...New money pledged by investors is widely used by private equity managers as security for bank loans that are then used to pay for buyout deals in advance of receiving the clients’ capital....
...In February it launched a deal with Apple, insurer Allianz and broker Aon that gave cheaper insurance to companies using Cisco’s ransomware defence or a range of Apple’s hardware products....
...Tech groups Apple and Cisco are teaming up with insurance provider Allianz and broker Aon on a new cyber security system that includes discounted premiums for their joint customers....
...In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Greg Case, chief executive of insurance broker Aon, said: “The industry has $3bn of premium written in cyber at a time when clients in the US have $450bn in...
...Harvey, Irma and Maria made 2017 the costliest year on record for weather disasters, according to Aon Benfield. This time, however, the likes of Mr Greenberg are in no rush to start up new companies....
...The alternative market for insurance ballooned from just $17bn in 2006 to $89bn in the first half of this year, according to Aon Benfield....
...“What we’re seeing is the most devastating flood event in Houston’s recorded history,” Steve Bowen, chief meteorologist at reinsurance company Aon Benfield, told Reuters....
...According to broker Aon Benfield, the amount of capital deployed in ILS vehicles grew 13 per cent to $81bn last year. That is more than three times higher than there was five years ago....
...According to research from broker Aon Benfield, the total amount of capital in ILS products was $75bn at the end of June 2016....
...● Robert McElvanney has moved to Santander Asset Management as a senior portfolio strategist group from Aon Hewitt, the consultancy....
...Andrew Kendrick President, ACE European Group Charles Philipps Chief Executive, Amlin Dominic Christian Executive Chairman, Aon Benfield John Spencer Non-Executive Chairman, ArgoGlobal — Syndicate...
...Dominic Mignon Chief of staff, office of the CEO, Aon 83. Donna Herdsman Director, Hewlett Packard 84....
...A person familiar with the matter said RSA recently asked its broker Aon Benfield to assess its reinsurance arrangements....
...Bryon Ehrhart, chairman of Aon Benfield Securities, said the location of investors and fund managers was more important than where the structures were domiciled....
...Benfield....
...“There’s lots of innovative stuff going on . . . at the moment,” says Mike Van Slooten, head of market analysis at Aon Benfield....
...JJ Wilczewski has been appointed co-head of the global client group, Americas after moving from Aon Hewitt....
...The insurance industry paid out about $45bn in 2013, lower than the 10-year average loss of $58bn, according to Aon Benfield, the reinsurance broker....
...The acquisition should help London’s only listed insurance broker take on the largest companies in the reinsurance subsector – Marsh’s Guy Carpenter, Aon Benfield and Willis Re....
...They have flocked to the latest issue after an index of “insurance-linked securities” – including catastrophe bonds – tracked by Aon Benfield, the reinsurance broker, returned an average of about 8 per cent...
...Aon Benfield predicts that over the next five years another $100bn worth of funding would come from alternative sources, such as “sidecars” – specialist vehicles set up by insurers that non-insurers can...
...An index of ILS compiled by Aon Benfield returned 12.7 per cent in the year to the end of March....
International Edition