All Reinsurance articles – Page 54
-
Editor's Note
Desert stampede
The fallout of subprime will be felt more keenly in today's global village than ever before
-
Industry Matters
Learning curve
Dr Simon Young looks at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility after almost a year in existence.
-
GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
-
Features
When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
-
CEO Q&ACEO Q&A: Nick Frankland
An interview with Nick Frankland, CEO of European Operations at Guy Carpenter
-
Features
Black gold rush
There is a rush on. In case anyone failed to notice – reinsurance companies are scrabbling to set up shop in the Middle East. Mairi Mallon reports.
-
Investment Analysis
Banging the drum for Bermuda
The absence of major catastrophe losses has meant another fantastic year for most Bermuda players. Investors should remain bullish despite softening reinsurance rates, argues Lindsey Rogerson.
-
Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
-
Online onlyBuffett leapfrogs Gates to become world's richest man
Berkshire Hathaway boss and acclaimed Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett is worth $62bn
-
Online only
Enstar completes AMP run-off buyout
Bermuda-based Enstar bought AMP Limited's Australian-based closed re/insurance operations for $417m
-
Online only
Scottish Re waves goodbye to another CEO
George Zippel to leave in July; board feels his contribution is "no longer considered viable" given subprime exposures
-
Online only
Technology first for Aspen Re in Bermuda
Aspen Re has become the first Bermudian insurer to implement electronic accounting and settlement
-
Online only
XL bond insurers on review for downgrade
The securities that are guaranteed or "wrapped" by the insurers could also be downgraded, warns Moody's
-
AnalysisReinsurers lose crucial legal battle
AGF and Wasa forced to pay pollution clean-up costs in follow-the-settlements case
-
Online onlyBermuda thriving amid turmoil, says Fitch
Rating agency considers developing a separate rating outlook for Bermuda
-
Online only
MMC vice chairman to retire
Mathis Cabiallavetta will join the board of directors of Swiss Re
-
Online only
Fitch upgrades Arch Capital and Arch Re
Upgrades reflect its consistently strong underwriting profitability relative to its peers
-
Online only
Marine & energy promotion at Aspen
Simon Mason is named deputy head of marine & energy, International Insurance
