All Archive articles – Page 6
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GR Focus
Handling the crisis
With the dual impact of the credit crunch and softening market on balance sheets, Helen Yates asks how reinsurers can best navigate their way out of this challenging environment.
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A: Richard Ward
An interview with Richard Ward, the chief executive officer of Lloyd’s.
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Investment Analysis
Safe cat in a storm
As turmoil convulses the world’s financial markets, the uncorrelated nature of catastrophe bonds makes them stand out from the crowd, writes David Sandham.
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GR Focus
Broken by fin cat
The financial catastrophe overcoming AIG and the subsequent Fed bail-out will go down in economic history as one of the most extraordinary weeks ever. Mairi Mallon delves through the entrails of the AIG crisis.
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Editor's Note
Back from Monte Carlo
We find ourselves at a unique moment in financial history.The credit crisis has claimed not only another Wall Street investment bank (Lehman, after Bear Stearns fell last March) but also now AIG, one of the world’s greatest insurance companies.The $85bn loan the U.S. government granted on 16 September to save ...
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Flagstone Re sees income rise
Second quarter net income of $41.9m attributed to new business
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GR Weekly Update. Hurricane Dolly crashes into Texas.
David Banks reports on the hurricane in Texas, Benfield's report on softening market rates and the Duke of York's statements at the official opening of the new Willis headquarters in London.
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Features
Lubricating the wheels
It’s time for change in the global reinsurance industry, argues Dr Kai-Uwe Schanz. Globalisation, deregulation, consolidation and new risk transfer options are challenging the industry’s traditional way of doing business.
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GR Weekly Update. Market softening continues.
David Sandham reports on the reinsurance market.
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Editor's Note
Exorcising the ghost
Our bold headline this month “Raising the Titanic” (page 10 onwards) is about the renewed efforts to establish a New York Insurance Exchange, 20 years after the previous attempt failed dramatically. Efforts to establish a “Lloyd’s” in New York in the 1980s came a cropper. The market was seen as ...
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GR Focus
Settling or sinking?
Do softening reinsurance rates spell a return to the pricing nadir of 1999/2000, or are reinsurers simply giving something back after two good years? asks Jason Howard.
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GR Focus
To return or not to return?
Roger Sellek examines the pros and cons of returning capital to shareholders in today’s rapidly softening market.
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Cover Story
How low will they go?
Reinsurance prices dropped across the board at the 1 January renewals. Helen Yates asks what could prevent prices going into freefall. Have underwriters learned the lessons of the past?
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GR Focus
The cashmere market
Rates are plummeting again across the reinsurance industry as the soft market tightens its grip. Brian Boornazian looks at each line and makes his predictions for 2008.
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Features
Bucking the trend
Retro pricing fell marginally at the 1 January renewals, but it’s not a buyers’ market yet. Mairi Mallon looks at the dynamics facing a market with its own unique set of rules.
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Features
Preventing a washout
Recent events have driven flooding up the political and risk management agenda. Dr Justin Butler examines what insurers and reinsurers can do to address the issue.
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Features
Preparing for the worst
New strains of bird flu could infect a billion people within weeks and the impact of this on business will depend on preparations that should already be underway, explains James O’Brien.
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Country Analysis
Scandinavia - Northern Lights
Although comparatively small, the Scandinavian countries are a mature and vital part of the European insurance landscape. Nick Thorpe investigates.
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Features
The year in headlines
Helen Yates takes a look back at the top news stories from 2007. All these stories were broken first on www.globalreinsurance.com.
