All Features articles – Page 13
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Editor's Note
Desert stampede
The fallout of subprime will be felt more keenly in today's global village than ever before
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Country Analysis
Emerald Isle
Partner Re, XL, Allied World, Quanta and Max Insurance are all based out there. No it’s not Bermuda but Dublin, Ireland that is becoming one of Europe’s most attractive reinsurance centres. Helen Yates reports.
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GR Focus
No pain, no gain
The implementation of Europe-wide capital adequacy regulation, Solvency II, will be a huge landmark for the insurance industry. Set to be implemented by 2012, it will have a significant impact on the capital structures of insurance companies and how risk is managed. As organisations endeavour to become Solvency II-compliant, many ...
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Features
No guarantees
Huge losses, downgrades and fears of corporate defaults. If ever there was a case study in the risks associated with a monoline business model, the bond insurance sector has provided it. Helen Yates reports.
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Features
Jumping through hoops
Concerns are being raised that European regulation is becoming too stifling and could echo the stringent US model. Liz Booth investigates.
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Analysis
Troublemaker or lifesaver?
Allstate has managed to both irritate state regulators and delight its shareholders in the past 12 months. Nick Thorpe delves into the background of this insurance behemoth.
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Features
Ready for takeoff
The Gulf insurance market is set to double in the next three years to reach $4bn. Geoff Bromley takes a look at what is driving this incredible growth.
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Features
Smashing open contingent commissions
Eliot Spitzer, Neelie Kroes and now Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal have made life less than easy for brokers. Nick Thorpe examines what their investigations mean for the industry and asks how brokers will be paid in the future.
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Features
GR Survey: Emerging risks
From flu pandemics and terrorist attacks to dramatic fluctuations in global weather patterns, today’s organisations face a new breed of risks. Nathan Skinner presents the results from our most extensive survey yet.
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Cover Story
Discrediting agencies
Rating agencies are coming under fire on both sides of the Atlantic following the US subprime market collapse. Helen Yates asks if the industry should question its reliance on ratings.
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GR Focus
Avoiding a bloodbath
Fears that falling rates may herald another bloodbath underestimate the technical knowledge that reinsurers have acquired, argues Raj Ahuja.
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GR Focus
Back to the future
Hurricane Katrina’s floating casinos were an expensive lesson in how poor data quality can cost insurers millions of dollars. Two years on, Matthew Grant looks at what has improved.
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A: Bassem Kabban
An interview with Bassem Kabban, chief executive officer of United Insurance Brokers.
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Features
Tempest brewing offshore
Insurers and reinsurers in the US have reignited the debate surrounding offshore reinsurers’ ability to dodge US income tax. Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
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Features
You can run but you can't hide
Andrew Ward examines the continued growth of run-off in Continental Europe and asks what effects Solvency II will have on the industry?
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Features
Capital market revolution
Capital market solutions will transform the industry, predicted delegates at our Insuring Climate Change conference. Helen Yates reports.
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Features
GR Survey: Converging markets
The capital markets and the insurance industry are moving ever closer. But are risk transfer products really here to stay? Nick Thorpe presents the results from this month’s readership survey.
