All Industry Comment articles – Page 3
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Features
The next industry changing loss
Only three years have passed since Hurricane Katrina sent three Bermuda reinsurers into run-off. Amanda Atkins considers what impact another major catastrophe could have on the market in 2008.
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GR Focus
Handling the capital glut
Can Bermuda reinsurers manage their excess capital successfully after two record-breaking years? If the market can get this right, it could just help to ease competitive pressures, explains Laline Carvalho.
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Industry Matters
Risky recruitment
Do employers need to be more agile in their search for new talent? Barbara Schönhofer lists the questions all recruiters should be asking themselves.
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Industry Matters
Getting the message
As Lloyd’s new e-commerce initiative gets underway, Alex Letts explains the very big difference between a data messaging hub and e-trading.
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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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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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Industry Matters
A year of transition
With balance sheets looking strong in the reinsurance sector, Robert DeRose, Andrew Colannino and Richard Attanasio review the US property casualty industry.
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Features
Tomorrow’s talent
The Lion City roars, but what now for the cubs? Simon Wilson looks at how the development of local talent and skills will be the lifeblood for future growth in the Asian insurance market.
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Industry Matters
Support for subscription
The London insurance market insists it is not anticompetitive, and AIRMIC agrees, says John Hurrell.
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Industry Matters
Scheming for success
Employing a scheme manager could result in quicker closure and reduced costs, say David Hunt and Richard Emmett.
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Industry Matters
Lessons learnt
The market forces that devastated the workers’ compensation market have wreaked even greater havoc in the subprime mortgage market. Brian O’Sullivan asks why those lessons weren’t learned.
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Industry Matters
Captives in the Gulf
There is huge untapped potential for the captive industry in the Middle East. Global Reinsurance asks Stephen May about these uncharted waters.
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Industry Matters
Battling the tax man
Onshore US captives have won the latest tax battle, but the war isn't over yet, explains Jean-Paul Louisot.
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Industry Matters
Paradise threatened?
Steven Ader asks if Bermuda can survive in the face of fierce competition.
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Industry Matters
It’s a gamble
Catastrophe predictions are less reliable than rolling dice, says Seymour Matthews.
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Industry Matters
Free market power
David Sampson promotes the value of a joined up approach to insuring the Floridian property insurance market.
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Industry Matters
Learning curve
Dr Simon Young looks at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility after almost a year in existence.
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CEO Q&ACEO Q&A: Nick Frankland
An interview with Nick Frankland, CEO of European Operations at Guy Carpenter
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Industry Matters
Open future
Dr Maria Marques looks at the implications of an open Brazilian market.
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Industry Matters
Taming the cycle
Mark Hewett argues that taming the reinsurance cycle is more feasible now than ever before.
