All Archive articles – Page 5
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Features
Data quality matters
The strength of decisions can only be as good as assumptions. In catastrophe modelling, Kenna Mawk writes, high-quality data has become a competitive necessity.
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Industry Matters
Demonstrating true value
In these challenging times, reinsurers and brokers have a game-changing opportunity to demonstrate their true value, says Julian James.
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GR Focus
Throwing down the gauntlet
Rob Gillies of the LMA examines the impact of European Commission initiatives on subscription markets
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GR Focus
Electronic Lloyd's
The future of Lloyd’s depends on the skill with which it deploys technology. Stephen Breen reports from the Xchanging conference in Brighton, UK.
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Industry Matters
No more excuses on e-placing
The placing of reinsurance business electronically is probably the most prolonged quest for a Holy Grail since the Knights of King Arthur, argues Jeff Ward.
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Industry Matters
The erosion in shareholder’s equity
Q3 2008 was a challenging quarter for reinsurers, writes Mark Rouck.
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Features
Uncertainty in Florida
The credit crunch has deepened concerns over the adequacy of catastrophe funds in Florida, writes Liz Booth.
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Investment Analysis
ILS is here to stay
Martin Davies analyses the state of ILS investment, how different players make price comparisons, and the impact on the reinsurance markets.
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Country Analysis
Jordan takes off
Insurers in Jordan are riding on the back of an economic boom, albeit modest compared to the Gulf states, and regulators are nurturing premium growth via a strict application of the rulebook, as David Banks discovers.
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Features
Navigating the storm
Patrick M. Liedtke and Kai-Uwe Schanz provide an overview of the global credit crisis, and an outlook for the future.
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Industry Matters
New regulations for non-US reinsurers
Dave Matcham welcomes the new framework for reinsurance regulation to be introduced in the United States.
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GR Focus
No pressure
Thomas F. Bush asks whether subscription insurance markets present US antitrust risks.
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GR Focus
Prime time for subscription
Lloyd’s is well-poised to seize opportunities in a hardening reinsurance market, discovers Helen Yates.
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Editor's Note
Back from Monte Carlo
We find ourselves at a unique moment in financial history.The credit crisis has claimed not only another Wall Street investment bank (Lehman, after Bear Stearns fell last March) but also now AIG, one of the world’s greatest insurance companies.The $85bn loan the U.S. government granted on 16 September to save ...
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GR Focus
Broken by fin cat
The financial catastrophe overcoming AIG and the subsequent Fed bail-out will go down in economic history as one of the most extraordinary weeks ever. Mairi Mallon delves through the entrails of the AIG crisis.
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Investment Analysis
Safe cat in a storm
As turmoil convulses the world’s financial markets, the uncorrelated nature of catastrophe bonds makes them stand out from the crowd, writes David Sandham.
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A: Richard Ward
An interview with Richard Ward, the chief executive officer of Lloyd’s.
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GR Focus
Handling the crisis
With the dual impact of the credit crunch and softening market on balance sheets, Helen Yates asks how reinsurers can best navigate their way out of this challenging environment.
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Features
Pick of the crop
Bermudians are looking for ways to get into the US agricultural insurance market, writes Mairi Mallon.
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Country Analysis
The last false dawn
An economic boom and the advance of takaful are two trends which mean the much-anticipated retention of Arabian reinsurance premium is beginning to take off, writes David Banks.
