All Reinsurance articles – Page 192
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Global Matters
What's in a sidecar?
Sidecars are once again becoming a popular means of increasing reinsurance capacity.
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Features
Service will be resumed
In the aftermath of the US hurricanes, business interruption has become a topical issue, but it is often misunderstood Ling Ong, Catherine Rawlin and James Stanbury consider some of the legal and practical accounting issues arising after a major catastrophe.
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Industry Matters
Putting the record straight
The satellite insurance industry has to date offered non-specific coverage, but the one size does not fit all, argues André Finn.
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Global Matters
And the heat is off
The FSA puts on hold its plans to develop rules on contract certainty.
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Analysis
A good hand
Despite a year of record losses, ACE not only made a profit in 2005 but kept its combined ratio under 100%. Nigel Allen finds out how.
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Features
Getting a grip
With reserve shortfalls still making headlines, just how effective are current reserving strategies? asks Nigel Allen
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Features
Filling the reserves
Duncan Briggs and Cheryl Tibbits consider the conservatism in Regulation XXX and the approaches taken to fund the reserve strain
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Editor's Note
Editor's note - Are we learning from the past?
Has the re/insurance industry really learned anything from past catastrophic events?
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Features
Hung out to dry
Australia is another jurisdiction joining the US in its efforts to tackle money laundering Dean Carrigan and Penny Holloway discuss its potential impact on insurers.
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GR Focus
One flu over the Cuckoo's Nest
With growing concern over bird flu, Andrew Tunnicliffe considers how alternative risk transfer could provide a solution to this pandemic risk
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Global Matters
Insuring cat-prone China
China must dramatically increase its natural catastrophe cover.
