Swiss Re

Ferguson leaves Swiss Re to head TIAA Cref

Roger Ferguson has been appointed president and chief executive officer of New York-based pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA Cref).

Weather derivatives help fulfil Millennium Promise

Reinsurer Swiss Re has structured a weather derivatives deal to help lessen the effects of drought on African farmers for the Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA), a charity that aims to end extreme poverty worldwide by 2025.

The View on Flu

Should life companies worry about bird flu? Swiss Re says yes, but Munich Re and a host of primary insurers claim the risks can be overstated. Richard Irving reports

Art of influence

Tom Wilson's work helped change the way the industry thinks about credit risk, alternative risk transfer and corporate risk culture. What now for ING Insurance's new head of risk management? By Navroz Patel

Katrina sparks model rethink

Demand for catastrophe bonds is unlikely to wane following the impact of Hurricane Katrina in August, despite question marks raised about hedge funds' appetite for taking on catastrophe risk in the aftermath of the disaster.

Fitch hires Matsui from Swiss Re

Fitch Ratings has hired Vincent Matsui, former co-head of global structured credit underwriting at Swiss Re in New York, as a managing director in its collateralised debt obligation (CDO) asset manager ratings group.

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