Adriatic Slovenica's acquisition by the GENERALI Group has been completed, the Italian group announced on 13 February. By this acquisition the Italian group increases its contribution to the market GWP about four times, to aprox. 18%.

Slovenia's top insurer Zavarovalnica Triglav plans to expand its activity in the Macedonian private pensions market. The Group is already present on the local insurance market, with two companies.

ERGO Group AG announced the sale of 100% of its non-life business in Russia to RESO-Garantia. The parties have agreed not to disclose details of the purchase price.

ZURICH Insurance Group reported 2018 BOP of USD 4.56 billion vs. USD 3.80 billion a year before, while the net income after tax attributable to shareholders (NIAS) was up by 24% to USD 3.71 billion.

Hannover-based insurer TALANX Group informed it has achieved FY2018 Group net income of EUR 703 million vs. EUR 670 million a year before, in line with "the outlook of around EUR 700 million published in October 2018".

Global re/insurance broker AON has named veteran AON leader, Lambros LAMBROU as Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Commercial Risk Solutions division.

FAIRFAX Financial Holdings Limited announced that Peter CLARKE has been appointed Vice President (VP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of FAIRFAX, reporting to FAIRFAX President, Paul RIVETT.

Adam ROMAN, board member of Ergo Hestia (Poland), will hold the position of Head of Global P&C of the ERGO group, effective 1 March. His tasks will include supervision over property insurance of the group in the areas of underwriting, actuarial and pricing, as well as reinsurance.

SCOR grew P&C reinsurance premiums by 9.7% at constant exchange rates at the January 2019 renewals, to EUR 3.2 billion. The outcome of these renewals is in line with the September update of the group's strategic plan growth assumption for SCOR Global P&C, at 5%-8% p.a.

MUNICH Re informed its Q profits fell by 56% y-o-y to EUR 238 million, impacted by the California wildfires in November and volatile financial markets towards the end of year. The group's FY 2018 net profit of EUR 2.2 billion is in line with its target of EUR 2.1 - 2.5 billion.

Insurance should be accessible to all social classes, regardless of their wealth & income status. Products offered today are conventional insurance products, largely inspired from the developed markets as "one-size-fits-all" solutions, affordable to only middle- and high-income clients in the Eastern Europe's emerging & developing markets. Inclusive insurance's goal is making insurance available to all, with responsible insurance offers, thus making up for a solution to narrow the insurance coverage gap in the region.

Property and motor insurance lines are providing for about 75% of the non-life insurance business in the CEE region, but are responsible for over 77% of the claims expenses. As such, although other classes of risks are emerging, for the time being and most probably for a rather long period ahead, property and motor insurance lines will continue to be at the heart of CEE's insurance market architecture.

To the satisfaction of its traditional guests, FIAR returns in 2019 to its historical hometown, Sinaia. The forthcoming edition will benefit from the comfort and professional facilities of a new venue, the Conference Center of the International Hotel ****, located in the heart of the beautiful mountain resort. Registration is opened at a significantly discounted early bird rate until 28 February.