Trading Risk June 2017

Greenlight Capital Re has announced that former SAC Re chief executive Simon Burton will replace Leonard Goldberg, who has been acting as CEO on an interim basis.

AlphaCat has hired Bernard Van der Stichele, a former ILS analyst for the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

Argenta non-executive director and former Lloyd's deputy chairman Graham White is to lead a new Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) group to represent the interests of members' agents at Lloyd's.

A significant drop in social and healthcare spending in the UK is now thought to be the cause of a slowdown in mortality improvement, which has led the longevity swap market to stall.

Leadenhall Capital Partners is a key investor in start-up Gryphon Group Holdings, which plans to take a technology-focused approach to delivering life insurance products.