All Industry Comment articles – Page 3
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Features
Preventing a tailspin
It’s becoming a buyer’s market but the signs are good that reinsurers will stand their ground at mid-year. Chris Klein predicts a long glide down.
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Features
The silent revolution
One by one, reinsurers are restructuring and relocating their European insurance headquarters. Mark Batten and Jim Bichard investigate the drivers behind this mass migration.
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Industry Matters
A capital way to measure risk
With new solvency laws, Bermuda should remain untroubled by capital adequacy problems or policyholder losses, explains Warren Cabral.
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Industry Matters
The next generation
The burgeoning Asian reinsurance market is here to stay, says Wee Choo Neo.
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Industry Matters
Getting the message
As Lloyd’s new e-commerce initiative gets underway, Alex Letts explains the very big difference between a data messaging hub and e-trading.
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Industry Matters
Risky recruitment
Do employers need to be more agile in their search for new talent? Barbara Schönhofer lists the questions all recruiters should be asking themselves.
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Industry Matters
Battling the tax man
Onshore US captives have won the latest tax battle, but the war isn't over yet, explains Jean-Paul Louisot.
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Industry Matters
Captives in the Gulf
There is huge untapped potential for the captive industry in the Middle East. Global Reinsurance asks Stephen May about these uncharted waters.
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Industry Matters
Lessons learnt
The market forces that devastated the workers’ compensation market have wreaked even greater havoc in the subprime mortgage market. Brian O’Sullivan asks why those lessons weren’t learned.
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Industry Matters
Scheming for success
Employing a scheme manager could result in quicker closure and reduced costs, say David Hunt and Richard Emmett.
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Industry Matters
Support for subscription
The London insurance market insists it is not anticompetitive, and AIRMIC agrees, says John Hurrell.
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Features
Tomorrow’s talent
The Lion City roars, but what now for the cubs? Simon Wilson looks at how the development of local talent and skills will be the lifeblood for future growth in the Asian insurance market.
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Industry Matters
A year of transition
With balance sheets looking strong in the reinsurance sector, Robert DeRose, Andrew Colannino and Richard Attanasio review the US property casualty industry.
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CEO Q&ACEO Q&A: Nick Frankland
An interview with Nick Frankland, CEO of European Operations at Guy Carpenter
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Industry Matters
Learning curve
Dr Simon Young looks at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility after almost a year in existence.
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Industry Matters
Free market power
David Sampson promotes the value of a joined up approach to insuring the Floridian property insurance market.
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Industry Matters
It’s a gamble
Catastrophe predictions are less reliable than rolling dice, says Seymour Matthews.
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Industry Matters
Paradise threatened?
Steven Ader asks if Bermuda can survive in the face of fierce competition.
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Industry Matters
Change in the air
The latest plans to reform the UK’s century-old insurance law must succeed where others have failed, says Kip Berkeley-Herring.
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Industry Matters
Crystal ball
Steve Breen looks ahead to 2008 and shares his predictions on sidecars, derivatives and subprime.
