All Industry Comment articles – Page 8
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Features
Flexibility - the key to growth
The failure of rates to harden means that captive formation remains stable, but interest in risk retention is on the rise, explains Jonathan Groves.
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No flight of fancy
Underwriters are holding firm on pricing and terms for aviation reinsurance in recognition of the sector's increasing exposure, explains Gary Millen.
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Is the end in sight?
Robin Cantor, Michael Cook and Mary Lyman consider whether recent US state tort reforms and legal decisions could herald better news for asbestos defendants.
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Industry Matters
Clearly does it
Contract clauses need to be water tight to stand up to possible litigation explains Claire Walter.
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Courting capital
Alternative risk transfer solutions are set to break new records in 2006. Cat bonds, sidecars and swaps are all increasingly popular means of tapping the capital flows, explain Jonathan Barnes and Alan Punter.
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GR Focus
Open for business
The UK's Financial Services Authority is making insurance special purpose vehicles a viable option for the London market. Dr Thomas Huertas explains why.
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Industry Matters
Building bridges
Alex Letts lists the benefits of peer-to-peer trading for the London market.
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Industry Matters
Brave new world
Jeff Mohrenweiser looks at the increasingly sophisticated capital requirement models employed by the reinsurance industry.
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Industry Matters
Blowing out the candles
As Sarbanes Oxley celebrates its fourth birthday, Craig Scarr looks at the progress of non-US companies so far.
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Features
Discipline all the way
Property insurance may be softening in those regions outside of the US and Caribbean, but this is no reason for reinsurers to follow suit. Maintaining discipline is key in this environment, explains Heike Trilovszky.
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The road ahead
James Vickers takes on the difficult challenge of predicting the future for reinsurers around the world.
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Industry Matters
Flooding the market
Josette Nouguier and Jean-Louis Marsaud examine the EC proposal for a directive on floods.
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Features
Swiss earthquake risk
Despite the low probability of large earthquakes occurring in Switzerland, the risk is important to model due to its potential catastrophic impact on the region, explain Julian Alovisi and Dr Jayanta Guin.
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Features
Don't ignore the small print
The refusal to approve the HIH scheme in its current form is a reminder that schemes of arrangement cannot simply be pushed through the courts, explains Peter Clarke.
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Features
The great debate
With the industry facing increasingly ferocious hurricane seasons, Dr Eberhard Faust details the conflicting arguments from the scientific community on what could be behind this period of heightened activity.
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Industry Matters
Rebuilding costs – science or guesswork?
The underinsurance of property risk is impacting both global and local markets says Tony Boobier.
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Features
A changing world
If the upheaval of ongoing regulatory scrutiny were not enough, the verdicts from a handful of recent cases could have additional implications on the way insurance brokers go about their business, explains Carolyn Haigh.
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Features
A user guide for cat models
The combination of a heavy reliance on catastrophe models and uncertainty in model outputs has caused widespread unease regarding their usage in the industry, explains Dr Herve Castella.
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Industry Matters
Model behaviour
At this year's Rendez-Vous de Septembre it will be “supermodels” of a different kind that will dominate discussions, explains Geoff Kinsella.
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Industry Matters
An argument for intervention
Insurers, consumers and government all play key roles in catastrophe preparation, mitigation and recovery, says Ernst Csiszar.
