All the headlines from our Allianz Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2002 // Many European countries observed Sunday, Jan. 27 as Holocaust Memorial Day, a time set aside to honor the memory of the 12 million human beings—over six million of them Jewish—who perished at the hands of the Nazis...
Feb 8 2002 // German insurance giant Allianz AG confirmed the adverse affects of last September’s attacks on the World Trade Center with the announcement that preliminary figures indicated a net operating profit for 2001 of around...
Feb 8 2002 // Germany’s Allianz AG announced that it plans to acquire the minority interests of shareholders in its subsidiaries Dresdner Bank, Hermes and Vereinte Versicherung in a so-called “squeeze-out”.Paul...
Jan 24 2002 // A.M. Best announced that it has downgraded the financial strength ratings to A (Excellent) from A++ (Superior) for Allianz Insurance Company of Canada and its affiliated company, Trafalgar Insurance Company of Canada,...
Jan 21 2002 // Munich Re and Allianz AG have completed the sales of their respective investments in several subsidiary insurance and financial groups first announced last April.Munich Re stated that, “it now holds 25.7% of the...
Jan 11 2002 // A.M. Best announced that it has affirmed the A++ (Superior) financial strength rating of Cornhill Insurance PLC, London, the principal U.K. subsidiary of Germany’s Allianz AG.Best’s statement noted...
Jan 4 2002 // Germany’s Allianz AG has elected to become part of the World Trade Center dispute by joining Swiss Re and Chubb Corp. in seeking to have the destruction of the twin towers declared “one occurrence,”...
Jan 4 2002 // While NASCAR and CART may dominate the sport of auto racing in the U.S., the rest of the world watches Formula 1. This no doubt influenced Allianz AG to sponsor the BMW Williams F1 Team during the 2002 season. The team...
Dec 28 2001 // Germany’s Allianz AG, the world’s largest insurer, measured by gross premiums written, will launch a revamped division, Allianz Global Risks (AGR), on January 1, 2002, in an effort to improve its performance in...
Dec 19 2001 // Standard & Poor’s and A.M. Best have both given high ratings to new debt issues from Germany’s Allianz Group.S&P assigned its ‘A-1’-plus short-term debt rating to Allianz Finance...
Nov 15 2001 // Germany’s Allianz Group announced a profitable first nine-months, despite increased estimates of claims from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and costs relative to the acquisition of Dresdner...
Sep 24 2001 // Both France’s AXA Group and Germany’s Allianz AG, the world’s two largest insurance groups, raised their original estimates of potential losses from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 in the U.S. (See IJ...
Sep 14 2001 // AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg followed up his statement on Wednesday in which he said that “These attacks are an enormous human and national tragedy,” with the reassurance that “We remain...
Aug 30 2001 // A.M. Best Co. downgraded the financial strength rating of “A++” (Superior) to “A” (Excellent) for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Companies (FFIC), Novato, California.A.M. Best indicated the rating...
Jun 28 2001 // Germany’s Allianz continued its move into Eastern Europe with the announcement that it would acquire a 45 percent interest in Rosno, Russia’s third largest insurer, from its parent company AFK Sistema for an...
Jun 8 2001 // Standard & Poor’s “assigned its double -‘A’ financial enhancement rating (FER) to Zurich-based Allianz Risk Transfer (ART),” an Allianz AG subsidiary which specializes (naturally enough)...
May 31 2001 // Germany’s Allianz posted a 6 percent rise in gross premiums written in the first quarter of 2001 to € 20.6 billion ($17.6 billion), reflecting contributions from acquisitions and a 7.9 percent increase in p/c...
May 17 2001 // Germany’s Allianz AG offered the minority shareholders of its Swiss subsidiary Berner Versicherung SwFrs 750 ($430) per share as part of its initiative to rebrand its three Swiss companies under the banner...
May 9 2001 // Allianz Ireland, the German insurer’s Irish subsidiary, registered a 54 percent increase in operating profits, reflecting an 11 percent increase in premiums, but still posted a drop in overall profits of 74 percent...
May 8 2001 // Germany’s Allianz AG announced that it was considering reducing its holdings, estimated to be worth around $3.8 billion, in the German power company Eon to facilitate its acquisition of British utility company...