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A boom in mergers and buyups in the reinsurance industry is set to continue into next year. Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said that companies would continue to combine to prow business and demands for greater scale from clients. A report by Standa...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Evan Greenberg just took deal-making to the next level. The chief executive officer of property-and-casualty insurer Ace Ltd on Wednesday announced a $28 billion deal for rival Chubb Corp. It’s the biggest acquisition in the in...

Two firms with a Bermuda presence are to merge in an $8.7 billion deal. Insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Group Holdings is to join forces in an all-stock transaction with professional services firm Towers Watson to add consulting operations an...

If Axis and PartnerRe realise their merger plans, the combined company will return $750 million to shareholders following the proposed merger. That number was detailed in an investor presentation filed with US financial regulator the Securities and E...

Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group has broken into the massive Lloyd’s of London market with its latest acquisition. The firm’s deal to take over Sportscover Underwriting Ltd — a Lloyd’s managing agent for Syndicate 3334 and Kinetic Brokers, a Ll...

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings has completed the acquisition of the Hong Kong and Singapore operations of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc (RSA). The Swiss-based insurer, which was one of the Class of 2001 companies to launch in Bermuda i...

Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group has broken into the massive Lloyd’s of London market with its latest acquisition. The firm’s deal to take over Sportscover Underwriting Ltd — a Lloyd’s managing agent for Syndicate 3334 and Kinetic Brokers, a Ll...

Merger mania in the insurance industry shows no sign of letting up, according to a major investment management firm. Analysts at US-based Conning said that mergers “picked up measurably” last year — and that activity had continued into the start of 2...

Bermuda logged a massive $20 billion-plus in deals in the last quarter of 2014 — the highest amount of any offshore jurisdiction. And experts predicted “merger mania” would continue into this year as firms rush to consolidate. The Island notched up h...

LF Wade International Airport is the place to hang out if you want to find out who’s buying whom in the reinsurance industry, according to XL Group chief executive officer Mike McGavick. His comments led to the headline “For Front-Row Seat in Deal Ac...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Third Point Reinsurance Ltd, the Bermuda-based company co-founded by hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb, said buying a competitor in the US or Europe could clash with its business model. “One of our strengths is we can tell people tha...