All Features articles – Page 21
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Features
Softening the blow
Despite record industry losses following last year's hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, many insurers and reinsurers managed to offset potentially devastating year-end results with strong investment returns, finds Ronald Gift Mullins
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Investment Analysis
The broking blues
Flat reinsurance revenue and post-Spitzer recovery continue to put a damper on the broking industry, with a few notable exceptions, finds Lindsey Rogerson
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Features
The winds of change
Last year's dark storm clouds may cast a longer lasting shadow over the Bermudian reinsurance industry than ever before, finds Lilla Zuill, with some of the view that fundamental changes to how the sector does business is the only way to go
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Country Analysis
Japan - still in flux
The world's second largest insurance market is still in a state of transition, finds Shirish Nadkarni
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Features
Taking on Goliath
Since Spitzer turned his focus squarely on the insurance industry last year there have been high-profile job losses, guilty pleas and sizable settlements But Liberty Mutual is not taking it lying down, explains Mairi Mallon.
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GR Focus
Automatic for the market
Getting the best use out of technology has at times felt like an enigma at Lloyd's But with managing agents group, the G6, taking a new approach, could real change be on the horizon? asks Helen Yates.
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Cover Story
The modern broker
Ronald Gift Mullins conducts a thorough examination of the current state of health of the broking community
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Country Analysis
Emerging from the chrysalis
Greater affluence could lead to better insurance penetration in Malaysia, finds Shirish Nadkarni
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GR Focus
Seven months to go
Global Reinsurance continued its countdown to contract certainty with a second panel discussion event in April Post renewals, Helen Yates discovered a distinctly more upbeat mood.
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Analysis
Withstanding the heat
While the losses of 2005 have certainly scorched its balance sheet, Kiln is looking to turn up the heat in 2006, says Nigel Allen
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Investment Analysis
On the offensive
Lloyd's market participants have been pushing hard after emerging in "reasonable shape" from the year of the catastrophe in 2005, explains Lindsey Rogerson
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GR Focus
Is it all up front?
There are plenty of mixed messages coming from the captive fronting market Is it beginning to settle down or are the number of insurers willing to offer fronting decreasing? asks Phil Zinkewicz.
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Investment Analysis
Breaking down Bermuda
How will the injection of new capital into Bermuda affect the island's original jet set? Asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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GR Focus
Carry on Captives
The captive industry may be mature but its boom is far from over, finds Ronald Gift Mullins
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Cover Story
Studying catastrophes
According to Swiss Re the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was a "milestone in insurance history" Helen Yates asks some leading industry figures what we have learned on the 100th anniversary of this catastrophe.
