Another property insurer in trouble?

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Via AFR:

Another Australian finance company linked to troubled insurance giant CBL is seeking new equity partners, replacing some reinsurance lines and has removed two CBL directors from its board that it plans to replace with independents.

…”The fact some children are behaving badly does not affect the other grown up kids,” Assetinsure chief executive Gregor Pfitzer​ said about his company’s relationship with other companies in the group.

…Assetinsure provides a range of speciality products including credit risk enhancement, surety bonds, specialised property insurance and rural risk cover.

It does affect you if you’re a counter-party.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.