All Editorial articles – Page 201
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GR Focus
A Slow Start
At the end of 2005 it was widely believed the ART sector would see renewed interest in response to the renewal rate hikes Ronald Gift Mullins explains why this isn't happening.
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Industry Matters
A Work in Progress
Contract certainty is now a visable part of business processes for many London market insurers and reinsurers, says John Hobbs
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Country Analysis
Russia: Out of the Red?
The Russian insurance industry has undergone perhaps the greatest overhaul of any market in the last 15 years, but just how far has it come? asks Nigel Allen
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Investment Analysis
Mixed Messages
An initial confidence that rates would increase post-Katrina is dwindling in some quarters, but not in others Lindsey Rogerson asks why.
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Analysis
Size Matters
Swiss Re's decision to buy GE Insurance Solutions will elevate it further in the size-is-king reinsurance stakes, learns Helen Yates
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Global Matters
Kinnect short-circuits
Five years into the project, the decision is taken to close down Kinnect
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Global Matters
Ruffling feathers
US life re/insurers must wake up to the threat of an avian flu pandemic
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GR Focus
Taking Finite too far
Despite all the bad press finite reinsurance remains an integral part of the insurance industry, insists Nigel Allen
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Features
Fac on track
Elliot Richardson considers the critical role which facultative reinsurance has played in the January renewals
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A - Graham Pewter
An interview with Graham Pewter, chief executive officer of Catlin Bermuda
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Features
Out of the blocks
Mairi Mallon casts her eye over the Class of 2005 in the aftermath of what many in the market are calling the most difficult renewals season ever
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Industry Matters
Model Behaviour
With recalibration of the catastrophe models expected in 2006, Alistair Lockhart-Smith highlights the unique challenges posed by the energy sector
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Editor's Note
Editor's Note - Re-establishing basics
The Reinsurance market has come through what many are describing as the most problematic renewals season on record, which has resulted in delays on most lines
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Global Matters
Aussie rules
Reinsurers could soon be impacted by new regulation to govern offshore insurers
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Features
The year ahead
Given the erratic nature of global risks, any attempt to predict what 2006 might have in store for the industry verges on utter folly All the same, Helen Yates gives it a go.
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Country Analysis
Testing the Tiger
Recent global catastrophes are putting pressure on Singapore's insurers and reinsurers to look at their exposures and price their risks accordingly, reports Helen Yates
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GR Focus
A STING IN THE TAIL
Will the lessons of the past be remembered this renewals season, asks Ronn Mullins, or will it be a case of making hay while the sun shines?
