The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remains the fastest growing insurance region, outpacing all other markets with top line growth of close to 15 percent in 2014, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report...

Using a captive to hedge longevity risk can provide a lower cost base and guarantee a ‘principal-to-principal’ approach between the pension scheme and the reinsurance market, according to pensions funding expert Ian Aley...

Aon Benfield has appointed Sergio Rivera Jiménez as CEO of Aon Benfield Columbia, with immediate effect...

ILS assets under management continue to grow but at a slower rate than the record breaking pace of recent years, according to the latest ILS report from Willis Capital Markets and Advisory...

Almost half of organisations only have a basic understanding of exposure to cyber risk, according to Marsh...

Willis Re has unveiled an enhanced approach to catastrophe risk modelling that enables insurers to more accurately measure, mitigate and articulate their catastrophe risk exposure for all major perils and territories globally...

Guernsey’s position as the go-to jurisdiction for longevity risk transactions was outlined at a Guernsey Finance event in London...

London is unlikely to become a centre for housing insurance-linked securities (ILS), according to Grant Thornton...

State governor Doug Ducey has appointed former Arizona Representative Andy Tobin as director of the Arizona Department of Insurance...

GC Securities has placed the Series 2015-1 Notes, with notional principal of $275 million, through the newly formed catastrophe bond shelf programme PennUnion Re...

Forecast economic losses for California wildfires were in excess of $1.5 billion during September, with preliminarily insured losses estimated at more than $925 million, according to Aon Benfield’s Global Catastrophe Report...

More than 71 percent of risk managers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have more influence that they did three years ago, according to a survey from ACE...