All Features articles – Page 12
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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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Analysis
Grand ambitions
With a renewed focus on the Gulf, Arig is now better placed to take on the rest of the world. Mairi Mallon meets CEO Yassir Al Baharna at the World Insurance Forum in Dubai.
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CEO Q&A
W Marston Becker CEO Q&A
An interview with W Marston “Marty” Becker, chairman and CEO of Max Capital Group.
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Investment Analysis
Once bitten, twice shy
Only one catastrophe bond has ever been triggered and the market has tripled since 2005. Could losses in 2008 put off investors who are not accustomed to paying out? asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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Cover Story
Sands of change
The opportunities in the Gulf are compelling, but you’ve got to be there if you want a slice of the action. Two groundbreaking conferences in the region looked at the opportunities and challenges. Helen Yates reports.
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Industry Matters
Spring cleaning
A major initiative to clean up its data should put the Lloyd's market back on track, reveals Ian Major.
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Features
Real discipline
Are the days of boom and bust over? Ronald Gift Mullins asks if we are starting to see true evidence of underwriting discipline or is it just the calm before the storm?
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Editor's Note
How the mighty fall
"The moral crusader and ambitious politician has fallen from his lofty pedestal and a lot of people hope it hurts" - Helen Yates, Editor - Global Reinsurance.
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Features
Fool's gold?
The excitement surrounding China belies the reality of the significant challenges ahead. Marcus Alcock likens the enthusiasm to the Californian gold rush of 1848.
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Country Analysis
Isle of Man on the map
Access to market, approachable regulators and an offshore location are all key assets for any captive domicile. The Isle of Man has them all, as Liz Booth reports.
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Industry Matters
Keeping the peace
Captive reinsurance disputes can be lengthy and expensive. David McCarthy offers some simple but effective solutions to avoid such quarrels.
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Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
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Investment Analysis
Banging the drum for Bermuda
The absence of major catastrophe losses has meant another fantastic year for most Bermuda players. Investors should remain bullish despite softening reinsurance rates, argues Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
Black gold rush
There is a rush on. In case anyone failed to notice – reinsurance companies are scrabbling to set up shop in the Middle East. Mairi Mallon reports.
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Features
When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
