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• There’s a new landlord in town: asset managers

  03-06-2017 06:05
  Fund houses, pension schemes and insurers to pour £50bn into build-to-rent sector
  
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• QBE extends partnership with AmWins in E&S

  03-06-2017 03:21
  QBE North America has teamed up with an AmWins MGA to kick off a
  national excess property program in the US.
  Offered on a non-admitted basis, the program is geared to risks
  that include "soft" occupancy such as habitational,
  hospitality and retail as well as manufacturing, the companies said
  today.
  The QBE property group will work with the AmWins Special Risk
  Underwriting MGA led by president Katie Davies. It serves AmWins
  property brokers and focuses on middle-market opportunities.
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• Over $1.5tn in storm surge residential risk delineated

  03-06-2017 03:21
  As the 2017 hurricane season begins a data and analytics company
  has released an assessment of US homes at risk of inundation from
  storm surges, putting the total potential loss at over $1.5tn.
  The analysis from CoreLogic looks at the 3,700-mile coastline
  extending from northern Maine to southern Texas and includes the
  reconstruction cost value for about 3.9 million homes along the
  Atlantic seaboard and nearly 3 million in areas fronting the Gulf
  of Mexico.
  But the study's worst-case scenario...
  
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