All Europe articles – Page 49
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Climate change could be uninsurable
Insurance “might not be people’s priority” in 50 years, warns Bill McGuire
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The future’s bright says S&P
Standard & Poor’s predicts a “new dawn” for the global reinsurance industry
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Industry is being “too pessimistic”
Companies should stop talking the market down, says Hans-Peter Gerhardt
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Solvency II to bring more M&A
Bryan Joseph predicts under-pressure medium-sized reinsurers will seek to merge
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Swiss Re advocates compulsory terrorism coverage
Terror cover should be compulsory where government pools exist, says Swiss Re
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Chilton: "Take convergence seriously"
Grahame Chilton has urged delegates at this year's Rendez-Vous to take the capital markets convergence seriously
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Swiss Re gets tough on pricing
Swiss Re will refuse to write unprofitable business, says Jacques Aigrain in Monte Carlo
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Munich Re launches ERM business
Special Enterprise Risks will be launched in the fourth quarter
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Subprime exposure sees sidecar downgraded
Fitch has downgraded Scottish Re sidecar Ballantyne Re
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AM Best affirms Munich Re A+ rating
One-off tax windfall of €400m should compensate for Kyrill
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Unfounded pessimism
As European reinsurance shares remain on very low valuations, Tim Dawson asks if investors are being too pessimistic and whether the prospects are the same for everyone?
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The elephant in the room
Over the last 12 months, the property catastrophe reinsurance market has dodged a couple of life-threatening bullets and pricing is now gently softening across the board. So what happened? asks Peter Middleton.
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Industry Matters
Flood link to climate change
The WMO and UN's IPCC say extreme weather events will become more frequent
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QBE launches new European reinsurer
QBE combines its existing Limit syndicates into QBE Re Europe
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UK floods highlight future risk
How freak weather events are encouraging insurers to look at alternatives
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Open Europe
The Reinsurance Directive has already stirred up some interesting structural changes in European reinsurers