Sentence examples for retrocession from inspiring English sources

To make it look as if it had transferred risk, HIH bought fake retrocession (that is, re-reinsurance).Then, in 1998, HIH bought another rotten insurer, FAI, for A$300m.

This retrocession is taken out of the annual fee, pushing such fees higher and reducing clients' returns.

Even when they can sell their funds, the process usually involves paying a commission, or "retrocession", to the distributor.

The Right Bank, after the abatement of the Ruin and the retrocession of Podolia by the Turks, also reverted to Polish sovereignty.

Reports of the supposed retrocession soon were received by the U.S. government with deep misgivings.

Jefferson instructed Robert R. Livingston, the U.S. minister at Paris, to take two steps: (1) to approach Napoleon's minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, with the object of preventing the retrocession in the event this act had not yet been completed; and (2) to try to purchase at least New Orleans if the property had actually been transferred from Spain to France.

With this treaty of retrocession, known as the Treaty of San Ildefonso (confirmed March 21 , 1801, would go not only the growing and commercially significant port of New Orleans but the strategic mouth of the Mississippi River.

By that time the operations of EOKA had been reduced, but on the other hand the Turkish Cypriot minority, led by Fazıl Küçük, expressed alarm and demanded either retrocession to Turkey or partition.

Obliged to sue for peace, he was fortunate to obtain very light terms from the inept Turkish negotiators, who allowed him to retire with no greater sacrifice than the retrocession of Azov.

The transaction, known as retrocession, means that Swiss Re has transferred the business to another reinsurer — Berkshire Hathaway.

Fees have not been transparent, with clients getting charged for a whole range of services and some managers taking "retrocessions" or kickbacks from outside funds with which they place money.