All Editorial articles – Page 96
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Features
Lighting the way forward
In a competitive sector, another year of record profits and benign catastrophe losses are simply exerting more downward pressure on energy reinsurance rates. But there is still some opportunity for reinsurers, discovers Jon Guy.
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Industry Matters
The next generation
The burgeoning Asian reinsurance market is here to stay, says Wee Choo Neo.
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Industry Matters
Getting the message
As Lloyd’s new e-commerce initiative gets underway, Alex Letts explains the very big difference between a data messaging hub and e-trading.
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Investment Analysis
Investment: Spreading nasty rumours
Using negative market sentiment for positive gain has become an increasingly prevalent fact of life. As the downturn in the global financial markets gathers pace, the vultures are circling, discovers Lindsey Rogerson.
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GR Focus
London market: Time to move on
With rumours that Lloyd’s could be developing a new central platform, Marcus Alcock asks if the ghost of Kinnect has been finally laid to rest.
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Analysis
Navigating stormy seas
Greenlight Re is in capital-preservation mode. The Cayman-based reinsurer, which has a dual engine strategy, split between liabilities and equity, is playing it safe in both the volatile stock markets and softening reinsurance environment. Mairi Mallon reports.
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GR Focus
Willingness to pay
Insurers and reinsurers can build competitive advantage through providing a better claims service. Martin Thomas demonstrates how this can be done.
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Cover Story
Raising the Titanic
If New York’s Insurance Exchange was such a failure in the 1980s, why would regulators want to recreate a similar one today? Ronald Gift Mullins discovers that many people think the time is now right to establish a “Lloyd’s” in NYC.
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AnalysisPlumeri opens doors to new skyscraper
The Willis Building "is a monument to our past, current and future", says Plumeri
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Benfield launches Kazakhstan quake model
Several strong earthquakes have occurred in Kazakhstan during the last two hundred years
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S&P: ERM is not a cure-all
ERM is not a guarantee that a firm can predict or avoid losses
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Onus of Solvency II will be on senior management
Firms must embed ERM throughout their organisation, recommends Willis seminar
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UPDATE: More than 7,000 dead in China earthquake
Rescue efforts continue following 7.8-magnitude quake in Sichuan province
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CEA and ACLI call for EU/US insurance forum
Joint message prior to 13 May Transatlantic Economic Council meeting
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AIG on review for downgrade - Moody's
The review process could lead to a rating downgrade of one or two notches, said Moody's
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AnalysisAIG soldiers on after $7.8bn loss
The size of AIG's record Q1 loss sent shudders through the industry
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Aon Re Global buys Peruvian broker
Cosegur Re is the largest reinsurance intermediary in Peru
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S&P takes rating actions on 17 cat bonds
Actions reflect the revision of the default table used to rate insurance-linked securitisations
