All Features articles – Page 22
-
Investment Analysis
Breaking down Bermuda
How will the injection of new capital into Bermuda affect the island's original jet set? Asks Lindsey Rogerson.
-
GR Focus
Is it all up front?
There are plenty of mixed messages coming from the captive fronting market Is it beginning to settle down or are the number of insurers willing to offer fronting decreasing? asks Phil Zinkewicz.
-
Investment Analysis
By the horns
With a number of investors looking to up their reinsurance exposure, Lindsey Rogerson considers why the market is so bullish
-
Country Analysis
Brazil - Opening time - Sometime
It's been a long wait for the state reinsurance monopoly to end in Brazil, Maria Kielmas discovers
-
Cover Story
Reinsurance in the balance
As the 2005 financial results slowly reveal the balance sheet impact of the 2005 storms, Nigel Allen considers the appeal of the reinsurance sector from a client perspective
-
Features
Whose job is it anyway?
With such an array of criteria used to establish capital requirements, whose role is it to come up with the "right" model? asks Eamonn McMurrough
-
Editor's Note
Editor's note - Strategic alternatives
The use of the phrase "strategic alternatives" sends a shiver down the spine of most within the industry
-
Analysis
Montpelier Re - Up the mountain again
With close to a billion dollars in losses, Montpelier Re moved quickly to restock capital, but were they quick enough? asks Ronald Gift Mullins
-
Country Analysis
Russia: Out of the Red?
The Russian insurance industry has undergone perhaps the greatest overhaul of any market in the last 15 years, but just how far has it come? asks Nigel Allen
-
Investment Analysis
Mixed Messages
An initial confidence that rates would increase post-Katrina is dwindling in some quarters, but not in others Lindsey Rogerson asks why.
-
Analysis
Size Matters
Swiss Re's decision to buy GE Insurance Solutions will elevate it further in the size-is-king reinsurance stakes, learns Helen Yates
-
GR Focus
Taking Finite too far
Despite all the bad press finite reinsurance remains an integral part of the insurance industry, insists Nigel Allen
-
CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A - Graham Pewter
An interview with Graham Pewter, chief executive officer of Catlin Bermuda
-
Editor's Note
Editor's Note - Re-establishing basics
The Reinsurance market has come through what many are describing as the most problematic renewals season on record, which has resulted in delays on most lines
-
Features
The year ahead
Given the erratic nature of global risks, any attempt to predict what 2006 might have in store for the industry verges on utter folly All the same, Helen Yates gives it a go.
-
Country Analysis
Testing the Tiger
Recent global catastrophes are putting pressure on Singapore's insurers and reinsurers to look at their exposures and price their risks accordingly, reports Helen Yates
-
GR Focus
A STING IN THE TAIL
Will the lessons of the past be remembered this renewals season, asks Ronn Mullins, or will it be a case of making hay while the sun shines?
