BNET Industries
Market Cap:$32.6B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.0B
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Insurance & Reinsurance Underwriting
CEO
Ewen GilmourNumber of Employees 479
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Insurance Agencies and Brokerages: 524210
Recent Events
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Chaucer's Copenhagen Office Strengthens Local Team
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Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Selected by Chaucer Insurance for
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Stronger Underwriting Market, Stable Claims Bring Four-Fold Interim Profit Rise to Lloyd's Insurer Chaucer
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UPDATE 2-Pamplona ups stake in Chaucer, Brit offer rejected
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Brit Withdraws Offer for Chaucer After Failing to Convince Board
News & Analysis
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Chaucer Tales.
- 2007-10-15
Our companies editor finds a potentially lucrative investment opportunity in the non-life insurance sector Simon Thompson It is not often that a company reports record profits, boasts a thumping 37 per cent return on equity, has a stated dividend policy of raising pay-outs by...
BestWeek: Lloyd's Insurers Digging in For a Drop in 2008 Rates
- 2007-08-03
OLDWICK, N.J. -- As Lloyd's and its managing agents begin sparring over 2008 capacity levels, there are broad indications the market softening the 2005 hurricanes delayed is once again under way, according to a story in BestWeek Europe. Chaucer Holdings plc, for instance, plans to lower the 2008 capacity...
CHAUCER HOLDINGS
- 2007-03-24
Chaucer is the latestLloyd's of London insurer to posta sparkling set of results this week, revealing a sevenfold rise inits profits due tothe benignity of last year's US hurricane season. Chaucer proved in 2005 that, with a disciplined approach to underwriting and re-insurance, it can profit in the worst of...
Chaucer Holdings
- 2007-03-20
Our view: Buy Share price: 98.25p (+5p) Chaucer Holdings became the latest Lloyd's of London insurer to post a sparkling set of results yesterday, revealing a sevenfold rise in its profits due almost entirely to the benignity of last year's US hurricane season. ...
Updates; Amlin will not bid for Chaucer.(World)(appointments)(Amlin P.L.C)(Chaucer Holdings PLC)
- 2005-07-18
Lloyd's of London company Amlin P.L.C., which manages multiline syndicate 2001 at Lloyd's, announced it will not make an offer for Chaucer Holdings P.L.C. Amlin said in June that it was in talks to buy Chaucer, which manages and contributes capacity to syndicates 1084...
Bid approach sends Chaucer higher
- 2005-06-09
Shares in Chaucer Holdings, the Lloyds' of London insurer, jumped more than 11.5 per cent yesterday, after the company admitted it had received a takeover approach from an unnamed bidder, believed to be its larger rival, Amlin. Chaucer made a statement in response to a hike in...
Investors buy up British safety-products group Kidde as U.S. bid shapes up.
- 2004-10-23
By Sarah Marks, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 23--Buyers poured into firefighting and safety products group Kidde today as the market sensed that its US suitor means business, and hostilities may shortly begin. The shares soared...
British Insurer Lloyd's Performs Well in Part Due to Natural Disaster Division.
- 2004-04-17
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 17--Insurers at the Lloyd's market are a hardy breed. They take disaster in their stride. Cataclysms take a little longer, but they are all in the line of business. Chaucer Holdings is...
Chaucer holdings to manage Kiln Syndicate 1204.
- 2003-11-10
Lloyd's managing agency, RJ Kiln & Co., a subsidiary of Kiln plc, has signed an agreement to transfer the management of professional liability Syndicate 1204 to Chaucer Holdings Plc. Under this transaction, which is subject to Lloyd's approval, Chaucer will not assume any liability...
World Updates; E.C. to consider report on Lloyd's regulation.(International)(stock rally narrows U.K. pension deficits)(Institute of Directos report urges better rehab management)(Chaucer Holdings PLC posts gains for half)
- 2003-09-29
The European Commission has been asked to consider a report that questions the adequacy of the U.K. government's regulation of Lloyd's of London dating back to the 1970s. The report, which the European Parliament approved, stemmed from complaints by names who charge their losses were caused...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Ewen Gilmour | CEO |
| Mark Graham | CFO |
| Joanna Hammond | Marketing Manager |
| Chris Wood | Head of Aviation |
| David Turner | Secretary |
| Ed Lines | Head of Property |
| John Fowle | Head of Specialist Lines |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Christopher Forbes | Board of Directors |
| Richard Scholes | Board of Directors |
| Robert V. Deutsch | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | CEO | Current |
| Chaucer Syndicates Limited | CEO | Current |
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | CFO | Current |
| Chaucer Syndicates Limited | Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Director, Finance | Former |
| Chaucer Syndicates Limited | Actuary | Former |
| Ashley Palmer | Actuary | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Marketing Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Head of Aviation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Head of Property | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Head of Specialist Lines | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Shore Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Ironshore Technical Services, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. | Coordinator, Risk | Current |
| American Academy of Actuaries | Board of Directors | Current |
| Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. | Board Member | Current |
| Chaucer Holdings Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Casualty Actuarial Society | Fellow | Current |
| Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance, Inc. | Member of the Audit, Compensation and Executive Committees | Current |
| Iron Shore Inc. | President | Former |
| CNA Financial Corporation | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | Former |
| Iron Shore Inc. | Director | Former |
| Casualty Actuarial Society | Director | Former |
| Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania | B.S. In Economics | Former |
| Volume | 705,455 |
| Shares Outstanding | 2.3B |
| Market Cap | 32.6B |
| Year High | 15.95 |
| Year Low | 8.56 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.050 |
| P/E Ratio | 6.7610 |
| Dividend | 0.2638 |
| Yield | 1.90 |
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