All Editorial articles – Page 96
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Industry Matters
The next generation
The burgeoning Asian reinsurance market is here to stay, says Wee Choo Neo.
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Features
Lighting the way forward
In a competitive sector, another year of record profits and benign catastrophe losses are simply exerting more downward pressure on energy reinsurance rates. But there is still some opportunity for reinsurers, discovers Jon Guy.
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Features
Captive king
Despite its grand ambitions, the Cayman Islands is not yet a serious rival to Bermuda’s reinsurance crown. But it is the world’s second-largest captive jurisdiction. Ana Paula Nacif reports.
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Industry Matters
A capital way to measure risk
With new solvency laws, Bermuda should remain untroubled by capital adequacy problems or policyholder losses, explains Warren Cabral.
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GR Focus
The talent time bomb
Those who are managing the world’s biggest risks are neglecting one of the major hazards for their own business – continuity of skills. David Banks looks at the talent crisis facing the London market and its interests abroad.
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Bermuda shorts in Lloyd’s
Bermudians flocked to Lloyd’s last year, driven by the need to diversify into new markets. Given the two-way traffic between the jurisdictions, do Bermudians and Londoners make a natural fit? Or are Bermuda shorts proving a chilly option for Lloyd’s? Mairi Mallon investigates.
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Country Analysis
Germany: Waking the bear
Germany’s strong economy and heavyweight reinsurance players can do little to hold back the credit crisis. Many recognise the impact of subprime will go much deeper than first thought, as Herbert Fromme reports.
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AnalysisPlumeri opens doors to new skyscraper
The Willis Building "is a monument to our past, current and future", says Plumeri
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Benfield launches Kazakhstan quake model
Several strong earthquakes have occurred in Kazakhstan during the last two hundred years
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S&P: ERM is not a cure-all
ERM is not a guarantee that a firm can predict or avoid losses
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Onus of Solvency II will be on senior management
Firms must embed ERM throughout their organisation, recommends Willis seminar
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UPDATE: More than 7,000 dead in China earthquake
Rescue efforts continue following 7.8-magnitude quake in Sichuan province
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CEA and ACLI call for EU/US insurance forum
Joint message prior to 13 May Transatlantic Economic Council meeting
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AIG on review for downgrade - Moody's
The review process could lead to a rating downgrade of one or two notches, said Moody's
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AnalysisAIG soldiers on after $7.8bn loss
The size of AIG's record Q1 loss sent shudders through the industry
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Aon Re Global buys Peruvian broker
Cosegur Re is the largest reinsurance intermediary in Peru
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S&P takes rating actions on 17 cat bonds
Actions reflect the revision of the default table used to rate insurance-linked securitisations
