All North America articles – Page 15
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Belmont unveils new Caribbean catastrophe product
Solution for governments provides alternative to existing public sector facility and will be followed by separate protection for industry
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Munich Re foresees growing catastrophe claims in India
'In coming decades, the effects of climate change will make themselves felt particularly in emerging markets'
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Many captives failing to optimise their structure - Marsh
A landmark study finds captive capitalisation higher than required, while their growing risk appetite should be noted by reinsurers.
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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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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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CEO Q&A
W Marston Becker CEO Q&A
An interview with W Marston “Marty” Becker, chairman and CEO of Max Capital Group.
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Housing slump spells S&P downgrade for four US insurers
Most mortgage insurance companies 'will not generate an underwriting profit until 2010'
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AM Best extends basis risk assessment to ILWs
Ratings agency says it can use the same methodology as used for catastrophe bonds
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Swiss Re chief seeks ‘regulatory Nirvana’
Speech to FSA's insurance conference highlights growing interdependency of risks and growing need for harmonisation
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Announcement follows approval of regulator on 10 March
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Employee benefit brokerage to report to Eastern Regional Executive, David Zeigler
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Features
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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Editor's Note
Reality bites
Being in Monte Carlo is like being stuck in a time warp. In the ever-changing world of insurance and reinsurance it is comforting escapism to be sat once again in the Café de Paris, gazing across Casino Square at the elegant façade of the Hotel de Paris. The yearly gathering, ...
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New global property treaty head for Heritage
James Braddock joins from Ascot as head of new international property treaty portfolio
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New blood at Munich Re
Munich Re freshens up its North American division with new appointments
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MRC withdraws itself from ratings
S&P affirm ratings of the US reinsurer - only to be withdrawn by the company as it transfers its reinsurance business
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US offshore premiums down
RAA report reveals mixed bag of results for US offshore reinsurers
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Imperfect solution
With the industry preparing to adopt the FSA’s principles-based approach to regulation, Colin Smith, James Schacht and Lynne Prescott Hepler look at its feasibility and ask if such a scheme could work in the US
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EQECAT launches offshore Gulf model
New offshore energy model for the Gulf of Mexico launched
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Benign year puts Bermuda back on track
Bermuda enjoyed its most profitable year ever in 2006 in an environment of high pricing and no hurricanes
