All Features articles – Page 14
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A: Bassem Kabban
An interview with Bassem Kabban, chief executive officer of United Insurance Brokers.
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GR Focus
Back to the future
Hurricane Katrina’s floating casinos were an expensive lesson in how poor data quality can cost insurers millions of dollars. Two years on, Matthew Grant looks at what has improved.
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GR Focus
Avoiding a bloodbath
Fears that falling rates may herald another bloodbath underestimate the technical knowledge that reinsurers have acquired, argues Raj Ahuja.
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Cover Story
Discrediting agencies
Rating agencies are coming under fire on both sides of the Atlantic following the US subprime market collapse. Helen Yates asks if the industry should question its reliance on ratings.
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Features
The same old mistakes
Despite earning record profits in 2006, reinsurers are failing to put their excess capital to good use, warn David Siesko and Neil Weiss. Investing in cutting-edge claims technology and best practice now will save headaches in years to come.
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GR Focus
A terrorist’s mind
Political risk underwriters do not attempt to get inside a terrorist’s mind. Solid underwriting principles apply as much to this sector as any other. David James describes the evolution of a market with confused origins and an uncertain future.
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Country Analysis
Taking the lead
Long considered to be playing second fiddle to Hong Kong, Singapore has emerged as an Asian insurance powerhouse. Liz Booth investigates the country’s rising prominence.
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Features
The price isn’t right
Angry industry associations have hit out at suggestions that the subscription market is anti-competitive. Helen Yates asks if this could push differentiated pricing up the agenda
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Features
Politics and insurance
With proposals for a federal catastrophe facility in the US, what can we learn from the Florida story? asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
From the same hymn sheet
A pilot scheme led by Hannover Re is exploring the standardisation of communication in property placements across Europe. Professor Volker Gruhn, Jürgen Petzold and Clemens Schäfer explain more.
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GR Focus
Global terror map
Terrorist threats are constantly evolving, making life for insurers particularly difficult. Exclusive Analysis presents a snapshot of terror trends around the globe and what they could mean for insurers and reinsurers.
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Investment Analysis
Predicting the fallout
As the credit crunch widens its grip on the global debt markets, Lindsey Rogerson asks if the insurance and reinsurance industry should be concerned
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GR Focus
Derailing TRIA
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act will sunset on 31 December 2007. A bill proposing its renewal for the next 15 years should provide much needed stability. But only if it does not mandate insurers to cover attacks using weapons of mass destruction. Ben McKay explains why.
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FeaturesThe crunch is coming
In the absence of major hurricanes, talk at this year’s Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous focused on the “credit crunch”. Mairi Mallon considers what fallout the industry should expect from the collapse of the US subprime market.
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FeaturesGR Survey: Insuring tomorrow’s climate
Is the industry strong enough to cope with $40bn-plus weather losses every single year? Helen Yates presents the results from GR’s latest survey on insuring climate change
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Cover StoryProtection in all conditions
The appetite for cat bonds has continued unabated in 2007, despite other non-traditional products being wound down. But are they here for good, asks Nick Thorpe, and why is everyone going cat bond crazy?
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Editor's NoteLife after Monte Carlo
I survived my first Rendez-Vous de Septembre two years ago. There have been interesting changes in just that short time.Granted, I was particularly green during my first Rendez-Vous. I recall hyperventilating as I hobbled around the marina in impractical heels gasping down the phone that somebody had moved the GE ...
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Analysis
Hardy - A family affair
Hardy Underwriting is on the cusp of entering new territory, according to its CEO Barbara Merry. Emma Jones looks at the grand plans of a “niche” Lloyd’s insurer with 30 years of unbroken underwriting profitability.
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Features
Staying on top
With multi-plaintiff asbestos lawsuits in the US increasing, Bradley Drew advises insureds on how to keep track of the masses of claimant data involved.
