All Features articles – Page 13
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Editor's Note
Desert stampede
The fallout of subprime will be felt more keenly in today's global village than ever before
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GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
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Features
When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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Features
Black gold rush
There is a rush on. In case anyone failed to notice – reinsurance companies are scrabbling to set up shop in the Middle East. Mairi Mallon reports.
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Investment Analysis
Banging the drum for Bermuda
The absence of major catastrophe losses has meant another fantastic year for most Bermuda players. Investors should remain bullish despite softening reinsurance rates, argues Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
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Features
GR Survey: Emerging risks
From flu pandemics and terrorist attacks to dramatic fluctuations in global weather patterns, today’s organisations face a new breed of risks. Nathan Skinner presents the results from our most extensive survey yet.
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Features
Smashing open contingent commissions
Eliot Spitzer, Neelie Kroes and now Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal have made life less than easy for brokers. Nick Thorpe examines what their investigations mean for the industry and asks how brokers will be paid in the future.
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Features
The lure of run-off
Warren Buffett has started another trend. Run-off is now in vogue with canny investors. Marcus Alcock weighs up the attractions.
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Analysis
Spreading its wings
Brit may be a staunchly pro-London insurer, but with its Bermuda sidecar and new Gibraltar venture it is broadening its horizons. Emma Jones looks at the progress of an ambitious player.
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Investment Analysis
Investing in the future
The rapid growth of emerging insurance markets suggests future profits lie in distant shores. Lindsey Rogerson turns her gaze to China, India and the Middle East.
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Features
Directors in the dock
Much has been made of the potential fallout from the subprime crisis on the insurance industry. Simon Goldring and John Bruce examine some of the existing and potential litigation targets.
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Features
GR Survey: Converging markets
The capital markets and the insurance industry are moving ever closer. But are risk transfer products really here to stay? Nick Thorpe presents the results from this month’s readership survey.
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Features
Capital market revolution
Capital market solutions will transform the industry, predicted delegates at our Insuring Climate Change conference. Helen Yates reports.
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Features
You can run but you can't hide
Andrew Ward examines the continued growth of run-off in Continental Europe and asks what effects Solvency II will have on the industry?
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Features
Tempest brewing offshore
Insurers and reinsurers in the US have reignited the debate surrounding offshore reinsurers’ ability to dodge US income tax. Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
