All Features articles – Page 17
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FeaturesGR Survey: Florida’s impact on Bermuda
In May, GR ran a readership survey to establish what impact new Florida laws could have on the Bermuda market ahead of the mid-year renewals. Helen Yates presents the results
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GR Focus
Exiting Bermuda style
With so many adolescent players, Bermuda is not an obvious centre for discontinued business. But Katrina provided some highly-visible run-off activity, which illustrates the market’s growing sophistication, explains Charles Thresh
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GR Focus
Preventing scheme attacks
Non-US schemes of arrangement are increasingly vulnerable to attack from US cedants, via Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code. Selinda Melnik offers some advice for scheme success
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GR Focus
Coming of age
The Equitas deal has thrust run-off into the international limelight and thrown open a door of possibilities. Philip Grant explores how legacy management came of age
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GR Focus
Spotting a niche
In the post-Spitzer environment, non-traditional reinsurance has become an important source of revenue for many brokers. Helen Yates looks back on how this business took off in 2006 and how, one year on, the sophistication of the products has grown dramatically.
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FeaturesGR Survey: London And Technology
Can the London market afford an arm's length relationship with technology? In April, GR ran a survey looking at the importance of technology for the future success of the London market.
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GR Focus
Risking The Future
With brokers still smarting from the effects of Eliot Spitzer's investigations, rampant diversification plans are underway throughout the industry. Some brokers are even looking to transform themselves into risk consultancies. Nick Thorpe reports.
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CEO Q&A
Great expectations
When Richard Ward took up the helm as chief executive of Lloyd's on 24 April 2006, expectations were high. The market faced numerous hurdles and all eyes were on Ward to see how he would tackle them. Now a year into the role, Nick Thorpe gets the low-down.
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Cover Story
Keeping London competitive
With the pressure mounting from rival jurisdictions and constant in-fighting hindering progress, is London's heyday over? Nick Thorpe investigates some of the main challenges facing the market.
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Analysis
The Little Company That Does
From minnow to giant, Warren Buffett has turned National Indemnity into a behemoth of the insurance industry, discovers Ronald Gift Mullins.
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CEO Q&ACEO Q&A: James Summers
"All the best brokers have natural passion, in fact any good leader will always demonstrate passion and confidence in what he or she does," says James Summers, chief executive of Cooper Gay & Co.
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FeaturesThe alternatives to poaching
High profile staff defections have highlighted a shortage of top talent, says Mairi Mallon. But some companies believe poaching key employees is not the only way to secure the best individuals.
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Investment AnalysisFollow The Leader Or Strike Out Alone?
The issue isn't whether Bermuda is stealing business from London, it's whether both parties have taken their eye off the ball when it comes to innovative underwriting. Lindsey Rogerson reports.
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GR Focus
Muddy waters
British government authorities are in the process of changing the taxation situation of UK-owned captives to plug up some holes in current tax law. Stacy Shapiro reports.
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Investment Analysis
Show me the money
Will shareholders expect reinsurers to sustain the good times? With softening rates and new Florida laws, the opportunities aren't what they were in 2006. So is this when tax becomes important? asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
Is the reserving crisis over?
After years of accusing reinsurers of under-reserving, rating agencies appear to have given the industry the "all clear". Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
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GR Focus
Solitary Confinement
Protected, or segregated, cell captives began life in the 1990s. Phil Zinkewicz describes the evolution of this popular solution for undesirable risks.
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Analysis
Out of its comfort zone
India's national reinsurer, General Insurance Corporation, has enjoyed a virtual monopoly. But with the opening up of the market, and the phasing out of compulsory cessions, the reinsurer is leaving its comfort zone, explains Shirish Nadkarni.
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Features
GR Survey: China
With China being the word on everyone's lips at the moment, GR asked the industry about their plans to tap into opportunities in the country. Nick Thorpe presents the results.
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Country Analysis
O Canada!
Anyone who has ever met a Canadian citizen knows they don't like to be mistaken for American. The same can be said for the country's insurance and reinsurance sector, which despite its close proximity and ties to the US, maintains its own individual character. Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
