All Company articles – Page 121
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Features
Part of the furniture
Is the boom in capital market products coming to an end? With the industry anticipating record profits for 2006, Ronald Gift Mullins considers what impact this could have on the appetite of capital market investors.
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GR Focus
Feast or famine?
Is the reinsurance industry now overcapitalised? With prices now falling for many lines of business Christopher Kershaw and Andrew Poulton explain why there is too much capital in the market and what the consequences might be.
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Features
GR survey: climate change
One of GR's aims for 2007 is to encourage greater participation of its readers in the debates and issues shaping the industry. Each month, a short questionnaire will be sent out to our new "GR Benchmarking Club", with the results published in the magazine. Our first survey is on climate ...
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Investment Analysis
You can't predict the weather
Dire predictions for the industry a year ago have been largely disproved as reinsurers kickstart 2007 boasting massive profits. So is the outlook more upbeat now? Asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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FSA calls for greater stress testing
The FSA's risk report has highlighted climate change and pandemic influenza as considerable risks
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Cover Story
A bumper year
2006 is being hailed an abundant year of profits for reinsurers with Mother Nature providing some respite following record losses in 2005. But it's too soon to start celebrating, warns Mairi Mallon.
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Analysis
Back from the brink
For a company that has seen downgrades, restatements and regulatory investigations in its recent history, all fingers are crossed at Converium that a return to the "A" ranks is imminent in 2007, discovers Nick Thorpe.
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Aon: FSA report highlights need for ERM
The FSA's financial risk report highlights the importance of enterprise risk management, says Aon Global Risk Consulting
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Converium faces €35m Kyrill loss
Converium estimates its loss from winterstorm Kyrill at around €25m - €35m
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MMC to sell Putnam for $3.9bn
MMC has announced it will sell Putnam Investments to West Lifeco for $3.9bn
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Storms and Florida laws to impact reinsurers
According to Guy Carpenter's US renewals report, severe storms and new Florida legislation could disrupt a "placid" reinsurance marketplace
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Two senior execs quit Converium
Converium has today confirmed that Frank Schaar and Christoph Ludemann are to leave the company...
