FRANKFURT, May 16 (Reuters) - Emerging markets will see the highest growth in premiums for insurance companies this year and next, while Europe lags, according to the world's biggest reinsurer, Munich Re.

FRANKFURT, May 16 (Reuters) - Emerging markets will see the highest growth in premiums for insurance companies this year and next, while Europe lags, according to the world's biggest reinsurer,...

FRANKFURT, May 7 (Reuters) - Munich Re does not expect persistent low interest rates to eventually force it to shore up capital in its life insurance business, Munich Re's chief financial officer said.

Germany’s two largest insurance groups shrug off problems of record low interest rates and beat expectations by posting strong first-quarter earnings

* Munich Re Q1 net profit 972 mln euros vs forecast 931 mln

* Munich Re Q1 net profit 972 mln euros vs forecast 931 mln

FRANKFURT, May 7 (Reuters) - Low damage claims and rising premiums helped shield earnings at German reinsurers Munich Re and Hannover Re in the first quarter, as the sector battles to shore up income...

FRANKFURT, May 7 (Reuters) - Munich Re reported forecast-beating net profit of 972 million euros ($1.3 billion) in the first quarter as low damage claims offset an 11 percent drop in income from investments.

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LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - Munich Re has sold a $500 million catastrophe bond to protect two North Carolina underwriting associations against hurricane losses as insurers increasingly choose to cover risks with bonds rather than buying traditional

* Shares rise 0.8 pct, outpace insurance index (Adds quotes, analyst comment, background, shares)

MUNICH, March 12 (Reuters) - Reinsurer Munich Re is targeting net profit of close to 3 billion euros ($3.9billion) in 2013, after unusually low damage claims and stronginvestment gains helped it earn 3.2 billion last year, it saidon Tuesday.

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Munich Re ismarketing a new catastrophe bond through a special purposevehicle set up to protect two North Carolina underwritingassociations against $200 million of hurricane losses in theregion.

Feb 18 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Munich Reinsurance Company's (Munich Re) Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating and Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'AA-' with Stable Outlooks. Fitch has additionally affirmed the ratings of certain entit

* Shares rise 1.8 percent, outpace insurance index (Adds analyst comment, detail, background, shares)

Europe’s largest reinsurer by premiums exceeds annual profit expectations after payouts for big catastrophes are lower than average

FRANKFURT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Munich Re raised itsdividend as it reported 2012 net profit 3.2 billion euros ($4.34billion), slightly above consensus.

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Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Natural Disasters Cost The World $160 Billion In 2012 The world’s largest reinsurance firm, Munich Re, has stated that Natural Disasters alone have cost the world $160 billion in 2012. The US accounted f

Reinsurer Munich Re criticized the U.S. for insufficient defenses against natural disasters and said better coastal and infrastructure protection would help curb insurance rates.

FRANKFURT, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Munich Re onThursday said 90 percent of insured losses caused by naturalcatastrophes in 2012 were attributable to the United States,with Hurricane Sandy causing the biggest hit.

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Munich Re has won a 400million pound ($645 million) deal from British pensions insurerPension Insurance Corporation (PIC) to help it cover risksassociated with people living...

* Shares up 0.2 percent vs sector down 1.4 percent (Adds CFO, analyst comment)

Financial sectors are boosted by results and guidance from BNP Paribas and Munich Re, while restructuring efforts at ING also please investors

German reinsurer expects positive earnings in the US by the end of the year, despite hurricane Sandy payouts expected to be in the ‘mid-three-digit million euro range’

FRANKFURT, Nov 7 (Reuters) -* Munich re shares rise 2.3 percent after increases2012 outlook * Kuka shares rise 3.5 percent after results * Hochtief ag shares rise 4.7 percent after results

European insurers such as Munich Re, Hannover Re and Zurich Insurance underperform other stocks.Markets in the U.S. were closed as a mammoth storm headed up the coast of the Eastern U.S.

Subway stations may not seem like the scariest of places, unless you're looking through the lens of German photographer Nick Frank. In a series called "Subway," which Frank shared with us, the Munich U-Bahn resembles something out of '2001: A Space O

Last summer Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurer, was busted for taking employees to an elaborate sex party in Budapest. Executives were fired for hosting this party, at which prostitutes wore colored bracelets to identify what favors they could

Nikolaus von Bomhard calls for a public-private partnership that would improve the country’s earthquake cover and awareness of exposure

MONACO (Reuters) - Munich Reexpects reinsurance prices and conditions will be largely stable when it renews billions of euros worth of contracts with its insurance company clients at the start of 2013, though economic risks complicate the outlook.

MONACO (Reuters) - Munich Re <MUVGn.DE> expects reinsurance prices and conditions will be largely stable when it renews billions of euros worth of contracts with its insurance company clients at the start of 2013, though economic risks complica

MONACO, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Munich Re expectsreinsurance prices and conditions will be largely stable when itrenews billions of euros worth of contracts with its insurancecompany clients at the...

Reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Re will have some tough talking to do when they hammer out rates with primary insurers at the industry's annual gathering that starts Sunday in Monaco.

In May 2011, Ergo Versicherungsgruppe, a Dusseldorf, Germany-based subsidiary of Munich Re, was at the center of a huge scandal when details of a huge, prostitute-filled party in Budapest appeared in the German press. The party was held for Ergo-owne

FRANKFURT, Aug 13 (Reuters) - German insurers Allianz and Munich Re are interested in buying theGerman business of Dutch grid operator TenneT andstand ready to fund much needed upgrades in power transmission,a German newspaper reported on Monday.

Munich Re AG (MUV2.XE) Chief Executive Nikolaus von Bomhard on Tuesday reiterated that he is in favor of a banking system that separates investment banks from other banking activities to reduce the risk that an individual bank's problems could threat

Munich Re reported a 9.8% rise in net profit in the second quarter, helped by substantially lower costs for severe weather damage and the absence of impairments on Greek sovereign debt that weighed on last year's results.

Fewer disasters in the first half of the year compared with last year and better return on investment helps the German reinsurer beat expectations

Munich Re posted forecast-beating net profit after minorities of 808 million euros ($1 billion) in the second quarter that was bolstered by rising premiums and improved underwriting performance, allowing the world's biggest reinsurer to raise its ful

* Company aimed for net profit of about 2.5 bln eur in 2012

Backers say the arrangement would free up capital and leave the specialist insurer better placed to reach deals with larger pension schemes

July 17 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it has assignedits 'B(sf)' issue credit rating to the principal-at-risk notes issued by QueenStreet VI Re Ltd., sponsored by Munich...

FRANKFURT, July 16 (Reuters) - Cancelling the LondonOlympics due, for example, to a security threat would result indamages of more than 4 billion euros ($4.9 billion), AndrewDuxbury, underwriting...

BERLIN (AP) — Leading reinsurer Munich Re says that the relatively small amount of damage caused by natural disasters in the first half of 2012 — primarily in the U.S. — helped offset the high losses from the first half of last year

Germany's Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurer by premium revenue, swung to a net profit in the first quarter, helped by extremely low costs for large disasters and confirming an upbeat earnings trend for the sector.

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Munich Re, the Munich insurance company, swung to a first-quarter profit from a year-earlier net loss as gross written premiums rose 2.2%. In the quarter the company earned 782 million euros ($1.02 billion), compared with a

FRANKFURT, May 8 (Reuters) - Munich Re posted netprofit after minorities of 780 million euros ($1 billion) in thefirst quarter, in line with expectations, helped by risinginvestment income and low damage claims.