All Features articles – Page 22
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Editor's Note
Editor's note - Are we learning from the past?
Has the re/insurance industry really learned anything from past catastrophic events?
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Features
Getting a grip
With reserve shortfalls still making headlines, just how effective are current reserving strategies? asks Nigel Allen
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Analysis
A good hand
Despite a year of record losses, ACE not only made a profit in 2005 but kept its combined ratio under 100%. Nigel Allen finds out how.
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Analysis
Montpelier Re - Up the mountain again
With close to a billion dollars in losses, Montpelier Re moved quickly to restock capital, but were they quick enough? asks Ronald Gift Mullins
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Editor's Note
Editor's note - Strategic alternatives
The use of the phrase "strategic alternatives" sends a shiver down the spine of most within the industry
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Features
Whose job is it anyway?
With such an array of criteria used to establish capital requirements, whose role is it to come up with the "right" model? asks Eamonn McMurrough
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Cover Story
Reinsurance in the balance
As the 2005 financial results slowly reveal the balance sheet impact of the 2005 storms, Nigel Allen considers the appeal of the reinsurance sector from a client perspective
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Country Analysis
Brazil - Opening time - Sometime
It's been a long wait for the state reinsurance monopoly to end in Brazil, Maria Kielmas discovers
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Investment Analysis
By the horns
With a number of investors looking to up their reinsurance exposure, Lindsey Rogerson considers why the market is so bullish
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Features
The year ahead
Given the erratic nature of global risks, any attempt to predict what 2006 might have in store for the industry verges on utter folly All the same, Helen Yates gives it a go.
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Editor's Note
Editor's Note - Re-establishing basics
The Reinsurance market has come through what many are describing as the most problematic renewals season on record, which has resulted in delays on most lines
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A - Graham Pewter
An interview with Graham Pewter, chief executive officer of Catlin Bermuda
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GR Focus
Taking Finite too far
Despite all the bad press finite reinsurance remains an integral part of the insurance industry, insists Nigel Allen
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Analysis
Size Matters
Swiss Re's decision to buy GE Insurance Solutions will elevate it further in the size-is-king reinsurance stakes, learns Helen Yates
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Investment Analysis
Mixed Messages
An initial confidence that rates would increase post-Katrina is dwindling in some quarters, but not in others Lindsey Rogerson asks why.
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Country Analysis
Russia: Out of the Red?
The Russian insurance industry has undergone perhaps the greatest overhaul of any market in the last 15 years, but just how far has it come? asks Nigel Allen
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Investment Analysis
THE LONG HAUL OR A QUICK BUCK?
The "Class of 2005" has seen a flood of new capital into the industry, but will it still be there in 18 months? asks Lindsey Rogerson
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Features
Tapping the capital flows
Almost as soon as the initial losses from Hurricane Katrina were reported many reinsurers had the wheels in motion for capital raising initiatives Helen Yates looks at how successful they were.
