All Editorial articles – Page 199
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GR Focus
One flu over the Cuckoo's Nest
With growing concern over bird flu, Andrew Tunnicliffe considers how alternative risk transfer could provide a solution to this pandemic risk
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Features
Hung out to dry
Australia is another jurisdiction joining the US in its efforts to tackle money laundering Dean Carrigan and Penny Holloway discuss its potential impact on insurers.
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Editor's Note
Editor's note - Are we learning from the past?
Has the re/insurance industry really learned anything from past catastrophic events?
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Features
Filling the reserves
Duncan Briggs and Cheryl Tibbits consider the conservatism in Regulation XXX and the approaches taken to fund the reserve strain
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Features
Getting a grip
With reserve shortfalls still making headlines, just how effective are current reserving strategies? asks Nigel Allen
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Analysis
A good hand
Despite a year of record losses, ACE not only made a profit in 2005 but kept its combined ratio under 100%. Nigel Allen finds out how.
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Global Matters
And the heat is off
The FSA puts on hold its plans to develop rules on contract certainty.
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Global Matters
Litigious industry
The US still far exceeds the tort costs of other industrialised nations.
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Industry Matters
Putting the record straight
The satellite insurance industry has to date offered non-specific coverage, but the one size does not fit all, argues André Finn.
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Features
Service will be resumed
In the aftermath of the US hurricanes, business interruption has become a topical issue, but it is often misunderstood Ling Ong, Catherine Rawlin and James Stanbury consider some of the legal and practical accounting issues arising after a major catastrophe.
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Global Matters
What's in a sidecar?
Sidecars are once again becoming a popular means of increasing reinsurance capacity.
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Analysis
Montpelier Re - Up the mountain again
With close to a billion dollars in losses, Montpelier Re moved quickly to restock capital, but were they quick enough? asks Ronald Gift Mullins
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Features
Coming of age
Can small to medium-sized players take advantage of the life securitisation market? asks Scott Willkomm
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Editor's Note
Editor's note - Strategic alternatives
The use of the phrase "strategic alternatives" sends a shiver down the spine of most within the industry
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Features
Whose job is it anyway?
With such an array of criteria used to establish capital requirements, whose role is it to come up with the "right" model? asks Eamonn McMurrough
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Industry Matters
Middle Eastern appeal
The London market is catering to a growing demand for specialist products in the Middle East, says Alan McGraw.
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Cover Story
Reinsurance in the balance
As the 2005 financial results slowly reveal the balance sheet impact of the 2005 storms, Nigel Allen considers the appeal of the reinsurance sector from a client perspective
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Features
Balancing risk and reward
Increasingly insurers are employing economic capital as a measure of required capital and setting target rates of return on this capital Yet, a recent study questions whether there is sufficient understanding and buy-in to ensure that such frameworks are effective. Mark Train and Shyam Venkat consider the findings.
