All Editorial articles – Page 195
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Industry Matters
Flooding the market
Josette Nouguier and Jean-Louis Marsaud examine the EC proposal for a directive on floods.
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Cover Story
Restoring the faith
Could the industry's catastrophe models better predict Katrina today? After last year's wake-up call, Helen Yates assesses the recent changes made to improve the models' ability to analyse hurricane exposure.
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Global Matters
Eastern promise
Foreign brokers and reinsurers turn their attention to the burgeoning Indian insurance market.
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Features
Swiss earthquake risk
Despite the low probability of large earthquakes occurring in Switzerland, the risk is important to model due to its potential catastrophic impact on the region, explain Julian Alovisi and Dr Jayanta Guin.
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Features
Don't ignore the small print
The refusal to approve the HIH scheme in its current form is a reminder that schemes of arrangement cannot simply be pushed through the courts, explains Peter Clarke.
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Features
The great debate
With the industry facing increasingly ferocious hurricane seasons, Dr Eberhard Faust details the conflicting arguments from the scientific community on what could be behind this period of heightened activity.
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Industry Matters
Rebuilding costs – science or guesswork?
The underinsurance of property risk is impacting both global and local markets says Tony Boobier.
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Editor's Note
Editor's Note - The clock is ticking
Hurricane seasons can be deceiving because they encourage us to think on a yearly basis when longer-term trends can be more revealing.
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Features
A changing world
If the upheaval of ongoing regulatory scrutiny were not enough, the verdicts from a handful of recent cases could have additional implications on the way insurance brokers go about their business, explains Carolyn Haigh.
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CEO Q&A
Hemant Shah - CEO Q&A
An interview with Hemant Shah, president and chief executive officer of Risk Management Solutions (RMS).
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Features
A user guide for cat models
The combination of a heavy reliance on catastrophe models and uncertainty in model outputs has caused widespread unease regarding their usage in the industry, explains Dr Herve Castella.
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Global Matters
Capital markets solution
The Financial Services Authority is developing rules to ease the regulation of special purpose vehicles in the UK.
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Industry Matters
Model behaviour
At this year's Rendez-Vous de Septembre it will be “supermodels” of a different kind that will dominate discussions, explains Geoff Kinsella.
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Global Matters
Compact begins operation
The NAIC streamlines regulatory oversight in an effort to derail national insurance regulation.
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Analysis
Keeping its eye on the ball
After being hit with hurricane losses of $600m in 2005, Endurance was quick off the mark to make some necessary changes to its risk profile, discovers Lilla Zuill.
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Industry Matters
An argument for intervention
Insurers, consumers and government all play key roles in catastrophe preparation, mitigation and recovery, says Ernst Csiszar.
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Investment Analysis
Euro Alone now
Europe is still seen as a somewhat difficult market, and analysts are concerned this might be having a detrimental effect on European reinsurers, says Lindsey Rogerson.
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Global Matters
Earthquakes all in a state
American insurer Allstate will no longer offer earthquake cover in an attempt to limit its exposure to rare catastrophes.
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Features
Class action culture
Is the spectre of US-style class actions haunting Europe? ask Truiken Heydn, Chris Williamson and Liz Williams.
