Record buyout conversions fail to reduce growing insurer backlog: Barnett Waddingham

Independent professional services consultancy Barnett Waddingham (BW) has released the results of its 2026 survey of all 11 active large annuity insurers, indicating that despite acquisition volume reaching new highs, the overall pipeline of plans awaiting completion is still expanding. Barnett Waddingham reports that almost 160 defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have completed the transition…

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New Mountain CEO outlines long-term vision to build diversified, multi-line reinsurance platform

Steve Klinsky, CEO and founder of New York-based New Mountain, said the launch of VictoryRe and NovaRe underscores the company’s belief in the specialty insurance space and plans to expand into complementary areas of the insurance and reinsurance markets over time. The newly established reinsurance platform VictoryRe marks Johor Bahru’s entry into the reinsurance carrier…

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Willis Re appoints Chris Eaton to aviation reinsurance team

Willis Re, a global reinsurance brokerage providing risk transfer solutions and advisory services to insurance companies, has announced the appointment of Chris Eaton to its aviation reinsurance team. Eaton has more than 30 years of experience in aviation reinsurance, with a background spanning claims, technical wording and account management. He began his career at JTG/JLT…

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Xceedance hires Swapna Allapur as CPO to drive people strategy for AI-enabled insurance

Xceedance, a global provider of technology-driven business solutions to the insurance industry, announced the appointment of Swapna Allapur as Chief People Officer. In this role, Allapur will lead the company’s global talent strategy with a focus on workforce readiness, enabling transformation at scale, and strengthening organizational capabilities to help insurers adopt new technologies, including artificial…

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Florida-based Olympus launches inaugural $120m cat bond

Florida-based homeowners insurance specialist Olympus Insurance has entered the catastrophe bond market for the first time, completing a $120 million multi-year offering through newly formed Abacab Re Ltd., which provides capital markets-backed reinsurance protection for Florida storm risk. According to reports, Olympus’s first issuance of catastrophe bonds was originally worth US$100 million with a guidance…

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