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...“Models aren’t perfect,” said Troy Dehmann, chief operating officer of Lloyd’s insurer Beazley, which has a partnership with Cytora to automate key tasks....
...It was backed by a handful of insurers including Lloyd’s of London firms Beazley and Hiscox....
...But those in the market say there is, as yet, limited appetite among insurers to provide specific war coverage for cyber....
...Although limited commercial flights and backlogs of visa applications may mean the rest of the world has to wait a little longer to feel the benefits of China’s reopening, the rewards are significant: in...
...So long as transparency is limited and opacity lives on, insurers don’t have too much cause for alarm....
...But the company reiterated that it believed it had limited exposure to business interruption claims in the UK....
...HSBC trades on a “premium” rating of 0.7x 2020e tNAV for ROTEs of 2.9%/4.1%/6.2% in the context of which we now see limited further upside....
...SME insurers Beazley and Hiscox started the week down just 28 per cent in the year to date, which was not much weaker than the broader market....
...New lending activity appears limited – no figures provided but OSB is said to be writing business from its existing pipeline towards the end of March and throughout April, tightening LTV criteria and lending...
...Wednesday’s profit warning “is merely confirmation that Aston Martin, like all carmakers, is essentially a cyclical business with limited visibility and high operational gearing....
...In our view, the downside risk to M&B’s equity is limited. The upside is dependent on timing: the timing of re-opening; and the timing of asset sales if it really has to come to that....
...Peel Hunt called Beazley’s exposure to the California fires “surprisingly material” during “what is essentially a normal catastrophe year”....
...Customers then decide that these limited policies are not worth buying. As a result, the insurers are starved of new data on attacks to use when pricing new business....
...Insiders downplayed the prospect of chunky cuts given the limited geographical overlap, which is likely to reassure Amlin’s 1,900-strong workforce....
...However, even if jewellers and their customers do adopt stringent precautions, Simon Aitchison, head of jewellery at Beazley, an insurer, points out that jewellery and watch thefts remain common....
...Limited exposure to UK annuities helped Standard Life ride out a choppy year for the life assurance industry, which was blindsided by chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap compulsory annuity purchases...
...He is expecting special payouts from Beazley, Hiscox, Lancashire and – from outside the UK – Swiss Re....
...Andrew Horton, chief executive, denied the planned cash return to shareholders – including a special dividend – showed Beazley had limited opportunities to deploy the capital in expanding the business....
...With about two-thirds of the biggest Japanese stocks trading below book value, the potential for further falls appears limited, she says....
...But, with mortgage funding limited, many banks are reluctant to lend on homes with restricted occupancy clauses....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Those skills can be useful when pitching to wealthy customers in Hong Kong or Singapore, says Charles Beazley of Nikko AM, due to become chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest Asia-focused asset...
...Well-known names, including F&C Asset Management, IG Group, and Lloyd’s of London insurers Catlin and Beazley still have all-male boards....
...Beazley’s Mr Bantick says that the cover “is cheaper than traditional liability lines of business”....
...Mr Beazley, 57, started the company in 1986 with risk director Nick Furlonge, and was CEO for 22 years, until stepping down due to illness....
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