All Editorial articles – Page 207
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GR Focus
Cat modelling and the rating process
Rob Jones emphasises the importance of effective risk management tools to a reinsurer's rating
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Global Matters
Scandal sees changes at IRB
The president of Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil resigns.
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Cover Story
Dividing responsibilities
Can actuaries be expected to fully meet the requirements placed on them by both management and regulators? asks Nigel Allen
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Industry Matters
EC launches investigation
What can we expect from the EC insurance inquiry? asks Lesley Ainsworth
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Editor's Note
Editor's Note - Tackling terror
If the purpose of the terrorist attack launched on 7 July in London was to bring the city to a juddering halt - it failed
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GR Focus
Shortfalls Exposed
The events of 2004 exposed a number of shortfalls in the industry's ability to assess its hurricane exposure, reveals Peter Cheesman
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GR Focus
Past, present and future
Dr Steve Smith explores the climatic factors affecting hurricane activity and landfalls
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Country Analysis
India: Heartening growth
Since the Indian insurance market threw open its doors to the private sector in 2001, the industry has flourished, says Shirish Nadkarni
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GR Focus
In the right hands
Jeffrey Radke believes fluctuations in predicted losses reflect differences in how catastrophe models are used
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Investment Analysis
Slipping off the investors' radars
Can the broker market recover from the last twelve months in the eyes of the investors? asks Lindsey Rogerson
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GR Focus
Learning the lessons
Despite nature's best efforts, the widespread use of catastrophe models meant reinsurers' balance sheets escaped any major storm damage in 2004, says Hemant Shah
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Industry Matters
Small sizes that matter
Nanotechnologies need risk management, says Dr Christoph Lauterwasser
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Features
Reassessing standards
For some 60 years, the liquefied natural gas industry has been relatively catastrophe free, but how long can this "luck" be expected to last? asks Maria Kielmas
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Country Analysis
A plan of action
The French reinsurance market has experienced difficult times in recent years, but the tough choices made by some of the region's key players sees the market's strength returning, says Kaveri Niththyananthan
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Global Matters
AIG faces civil lawsuit
After using talk shows to adjudicate the wrongdoings of American International Group and its defrocked executives, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer along with New York Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills on 26 May filed a civil complaint against AIG, former CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, and former CFO Howard Smith
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Global Matters
Australia toughens reinsurance requirements
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released a draft prudential standard on reinsurance management
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Global Matters
Reinsurance centre back on table
The Rio de Janeiro state government is reviving a 1997 plan to create an International Reinsurance Centre
