All Reinsurance Markets articles – Page 6
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Features
Small beginnings
Recent natural disasters have highlighted one of the biggest challenges for the insurance world – the lack of policies in poorer regions. Helen Yates uncovers how microinsurance and public-private initiatives are slowly making changes.
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Features
Held to ransom
As Somali pirates continue to rampage through the Gulf of Aden, seizing ships and threatening lives, Liz Booth speaks to a chief executive caught up in the nightmare of one particular hijack.
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New (re)insurance chief at Qatar Financial Centre
Sami Sharif was previously CEO of ACE Life Middle East and Africa
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Tokio Millennium Re expands business lines
Bermuda-based subsidiary will provide proportional and per risk property coverage
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Features
Road to riches
Body Shop founder Anita Roddick once said: ‘There are only two ways of raising money: the hard way and the very hard way.’ Never has that been truer than in recent months. But the squeeze on capital has been easing, writes Mairi Mallon.
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Editor's NoteReflections on the Rendez-Vous
The outlook among delegates who attended the 2009 Reinsurance Rendez-Vous in Monte Carlo was as sunny as the glorious weather there. The mood is stable, even optimistic. Reinsurers have recovered much of the capital they lost in the financial crisis, and the first half of the hurricane season has been ...
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GR Focus
View from the ramparts
Battle lines are drawn in the bid to tax foreign reinsurers in the USA. David Banks assesses the battlefield from the opposing front lines.
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Global Matters
Sleeping giant
India must allow 100% overseas ownership if progress in the insurance sector is to be sustained, says Vikas Newatia.
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GR Focus
Voting with your feet
Taxation is one of the key factors in deciding where a business is domiciled. Recent reports from the UK suggest insurers may be about to desert for more favourable climates unless changes are made that support competitiveness. Liz Booth reports.
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Features
Captives restrained
If conditions are right for captives in the Middle East, why has the market not taken off? Karen Attwood investigates.
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Features
Model behaviour
Solvency II and improvements in the modelling of risk will make loss reserving more sophisticated, predicts Graham Fulcher.
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FeaturesA class apart
Ken LeStrange is no stranger to challenging times. The Endurance boss tells Liz Booth how he formed the company in the aftermath of 9/11 – and how that day continues to have a profound effect
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Swiss Re appeals for continuity
Reinsurer asks clients to ‘maintain relationships’
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Hannover Re points to mixed picture in 2010
Reinsurer expects largely stable prices for upcoming January treaty renewals in Germany
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Inflation ‘a threat to reinsurer profits’
Towers Perrin warns that 3% inflation means a $1m claim could leap to $1.113m
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Tough lessons learnt in financial crisis
Ernst & Young report says insurers have made clear changes
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: Solvency II ‘biggest challenge’ for European insurers
Munich Re highlights the need for primary insurers to regain their capital strength
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Online onlyBaden-Baden: ‘Capital creativity’ emerges
Symposium reveals key financial factors in advance of European reinsurance renewals
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Online only'Humbling' experience for Ward
Lloyd’s CEO leads charity campaign to support local communities and fundraising groups
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New active underwriter for Kiln/Tokio Marine syndicate
Philip Wray joins Syndicate 1880 from Swiss Re
