All Risk Management articles – Page 2
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SCOR expects €157m combined catastrophe loss
Sum of losses from earthquakes in Chile and Haiti and European windstorm Xynthia
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RenaissanceRe expects ‘significant’ quake losses
Reinsurer still expects first quarter profit despite natural catastrophe losses
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Online onlyChile quake ‘biggest Latin America loss’
Cooper Gay comments on expected impact on the reinsurance market
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Online onlyMunich Re quizzes Swiss Re on risk management
Multaqa conference sees a verbal exchange between senior executives revealing altered practices following the financial crisis.
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Online onlyMultaqa: risk management ‘a boardroom issue’
Swiss Re chief risk officer Raj Singh tells conference delegates in Qatar the issue should go right to the top of organisations
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Online onlyChile earthquake destroys 1.5m homes
RMS: 90% of property policies carry earthquake cover; earthquake was in top 10 most powerful
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Marsh: Corporate governance ‘less developed’ in UAE
Poll by global broker finds that local business leaders are putting increasing emphasis on compliance and risk management
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AnalysisInvest in overlooked countries
Indonesia, Mozambique, Peru, Ukraine - even Iran - have potential, says report by Control Risks
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Model behaviour
Solvency II and improvements in the modelling of risk will make loss reserving more sophisticated, predicts Graham Fulcher.
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Online onlyCould broader risk spread harm cedent-reinsurer ties?
Contradicton in statements in Monte Carlo raises cedent concerns; brokers' role enhanced.
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Cover StoryThe Risk Takers
Risk taking: we all do it, but some of us are are more skilled at it than others. But what would you rather do? Drive in an F1 race, gamble at cards – or underwrite at Lloyd’s? By Lauren MacGillivray and Mark Glendenning
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Online onlyArabian insurance ‘rendezvous’ kicks-off
Qatar MultaQa event hears of opportunities for growth in $7bn Gulf insurance industry
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Online onlyHollywood risk specialist insures five Oscar winners
Aon/Albert G. Ruben congratulates the 81st Annual Academy Award winners
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New casualty division at Argo Re
Led by former XL executive Nigel Mortimer; Argo’s US president leaving in May.
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AnalysisP&C data quality is reinsurers' top concern
Ernst & Young survey finds that underwriters are concerned about impact on prices
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Towers Perrin creates capital markets unit
Focus will be on risk-linked securities and asset risk management
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Paying for catastrophes
Catastrophe losses are getting more and more expensive. Population growth and increasing wealth compound exposures while a changing climate causes more frequent and severe events. Ronald Gift Mullins asks, “Who should pick up the tab?”
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Washed away
Amidst continued recovery from the Midwestern floods and heightened concerns regarding the US levee and dam infrastructure, the insurance industry braces itself for the onset of the hurricane season
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Rules ‘must change’ on environmental risk
ACE says managing exposures hampered by regulation and uncertainty
