Private equity specialist fund services firm Ipes has strengthened its senior management teams in London and Guernsey through the appointment of two new managing directors...

According to a recent State Street survey, 87 percent of participants think that it is likely there will be more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the insurance sector over the next five years...

Thomas Hodson, president of the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association (CCIA), has described the licensing of Red Apple Risk Insurance Company as “significant in so many ways”.

The South Carolina Department of Insurance has hired William Branum as director of captives...

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings has acquired the entire share capital of Flagstone Alliance Insurance and Reinsurance...

Governor Peter Shumlin announced that the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) has licensed Vermont’s 1,000th captive insurance company...

Many life insurers need to develop their actuarial models to embrace dynamic policyholder behaviour and management actions, according to Milliman...

Capstone Associated Services has promoted Megan Brooks to financial risk manager...

A new captive insurance risk management company has launched in South Carolina...

A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to “B++ (Good)” from “A (Excellent)” and the issuer credit rating to “bbb+” from “a” of American Safety Risk Retention Group, based in Burlington, Vermont...

Munich Re has appointed Bernhard Kaufmann as group chief risk officer, effective from 1 January 2014. He succeeds Joachim Oechslin, who will be joining the executive board of the Credit Suisse Group from the beginning of next year...

The former FERMA president, Jorge Luzzi, is the new executive vice president of Herco Global, a risk management company which is part of the insurance broking group MDS Holdings...