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In October 2000, some Wall Street analysts questioned the decline in American International Group (AIG) loss reserves. [10] In an effort to quell these concerns, AIG entered into two sham reinsurance transactions with Cologne Re Dublin, a subsidiary of General Reinsurance, that had no economic substance but were designed to add $500 million in phony loss reserves to AIG’s balance sheet in ...
Incorporated in 1992 in the state of Missouri, [10] Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) was formed as a holding company for GA's U.S. and Canadian reinsurance businesses. RGA was taken public by IPO in 1993 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: RGA), with General American retaining a 65% share.
In 2007 they merged with Bermuda-based PXRE, entering the reinsurance market. [16] The new company renamed as Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., and moved its public company home office to Bermuda, which offered a more favorable tax structure than the United States. [17] [18]
Chubb Limited is an American–Swiss [2] company incorporated in Zürich, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is a component of the S&P 500. [3] Chubb is a global provider of insurance products covering property and casualty, accident and health, reinsurance, and life insurance and is the largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company in the world. [4]
Munich Re Group or Munich Reinsurance Company (German: Münchener Rück; Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft) is a German multinational insurance company based in Munich, Germany. It is the world's largest reinsurer. [9] ERGO, a subsidiary of Munich Re, serves as the primary insurance arm of the Group. Munich Re's shares are publicly listed.
Swiss Re office in London, UK. Its London office is located in the 30 St Mary Axe tower, which opened on 25 May 2004. The landmark London skyscraper, designed by architect Norman Foster and popularly known as "the gherkin", was sold in February 2007 for over £600 million to IVG Immobilien AG of Germany and the Evans Randall property investment firm.
It is the third-largest reinsurance group in the world, with a gross premium of around €33 billion. Founded in 1966, Hannover Re transacts all lines of property & casualty and life & health reinsurance and has a network of over 170 subsidiaries, branches and representative offices on all five continents with a total staff of more than 3,000.
Greenlight invests primarily in publicly traded North American corporate debt offerings and equities. [2] Greenlight is most notable for its short selling of Lehman stock prior to Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008 [3] and the $11 million fine they received in January 2012 for insider trading in the UK. [4] Einhorn remains the fund's manager.