Ben Dyson
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Gibraltar regulator chief executive says she is tough but fair
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US Private equity house boosts holding in run-off buyer Catalina
Online onlyOgden Rate - a negative outcome
Stung by a change to the personal injury discount rate, UK insurers warn consumers will soon have to shoulder the costs
AnalysisInga Beale: Insurers offering too little cover for clients’ non-physical risks
Lloyd’s chief says industry’s 10% share of corporate risks ‘is not good enough’
AnalysisTen striking things about UK insurers' nine-month results
Bodily injury claims, motor rates and commercial growth on chief executives’ minds
AnalysisProfile: Julian James, president, Allied World Europe
Allied World’s Europe chief outlines his growth plans and vents his frustration at the ‘introverted’ London market
AnalysisWho was the best-performing Lloyd's insurer of 2013?
The results of Hiscox, Beazley, Amlin, Novae, Catlin, and Brit analysed
AnalysisInterview: Hyperion chief executive David Howden
Howden believes in rapid growth, and is confident he can achieve it
Online onlyInterview: Dane Douetil, chief executive, BMS
The new chief executive of BMS has had a varied insurance career in differing guises and harbours high ambitions for his business
AnalysisSavage: Aon/Berkshire deal is a vote of confidence in Lloyd’s
But Lloyd’s would be concerned by a proliferation of similar deals, says finance chief
ProfileInterview: Swiss Re chief executive Michel Liès
Michel Liès is an uncharacteristically optimistic chief executive, partly because his business is in its strongest form in years, partly because he sees opportunities amid the gloom
AnalysisAmlin fights off "intense" competition from capital markets
Catastrophe risk appetite high, says chief executive
Online onlyProfile: Ulrich Wallin, Hannover Re
Tighter control on investment and catastrophe underwriting has helped Hannover Re weather the economic storm, says its chief executive Ulrich Wallin
- Analysis
Everything you need to know about RMS(one)
Hailed as the future of cat modelling, GR investigates whether the new software really is a game changer
AnalysisAIR will not link to new RMS(one) platform
RMS chief Shah urges rival to make modelled output available to new system
AnalysisAon-Berkshire deal sparks Lloyd’s underwriting fears
Mixed feelings as Berkshire Hathaway arm prepares to muscle in on Aon business
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'Better profits, but casualty pricing remains a challenge'
Casualty prices are too low, and this is not a business that should take price adequacy lightly
AnalysisWhere do we go from here?
The global reinsurance industry is in good financial shape, but that is just as well - it faces one of the most testing periods in its history. Here, some of the market’s leading minds discuss the six big challenges facing the industry - and what can be done about them.
Online onlyProfile: Denis Kessler
Denis Kessler’s enthusiasm for the reinsurance sector is just one of the qualities that have helped the SCOR chief executive turn around the fortunes of the once-troubled French reinsurer.
- Cedants
Cedant Q&A: Sarah Yearwood
The director of ceded reinsurance at Argo’s Lloyd’s operation explains how her company has used alternative structures to do something different


