All Leader articles
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NewsElectronic placement at Lloyd’s: What does good look like?
Data, data, everywhere - Peter Smyth, vice president of PlacingHub developer Ebix Europe, shines the spotlight on the data-driven approach, swift onboarding, and API-first strategy that are now essential elements of successful London market electronic placement platforms
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NewsSaudi megaprojects: Opportunities and risks for global reinsurers
Given the size and scale of many of these projects, the global reinsurance market will have a significant role to play, say Chris Panes and Hassan Abdulfattah
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NewsWill this ‘circuit breaker’ market win back capital?
The perfect storm of 2022 has nourished the green shoots of investor optimism in 2023
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NewsAfter Stonegate: Unpicking Covid-19 BI aggregation potential
Why reinsurers should look to recent Covid-related judgments on the direct side in an effort to resolve uncertainty
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NewsTipping towards disaster
In this ever-more destabilised world, the post-Cold War rules no longer apply, explains Dragonfly’s Henry Wilkinson
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NewsUkraine: A ‘Matrix moment’ for climate change
The choices governments make in response to the Ukraine conflict might either accelerate or delay the global transition to net-zero emissions
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Online onlyThe last thing anyone wants in the current environment is naive capacity
While casualty rates may be improving, small incremental movements are the order of the day, not dramatic upswings
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'Better profits, but casualty pricing remains a challenge'
Casualty prices are too low, and this is not a business that should take price adequacy lightly
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People & OpinionLeader: The trouble with innovation
Do cedants really need the reinsurance equivalent of Thomas Edison assuming their risk?
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People & OpinionLeader: With great loss, comes great responsibility
Amid all the Japan loss estimates, one shouldn’t forget the realities on the ground
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People & OpinionLeader: Appearances can be deceiving
Combined ratio may seem like a standard calculation, but that's not always the case
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People & OpinionLeader: best execution
Reinsurers may have a lesson or two to learn from the world of equities trading
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AnalysisLeader: 2010 kept things interesting
The past year has seen sweeping change at some companies - and a surprising lack of change at others
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People & OpinionLeader: the trials of a listed reinsurer
The soft market only highlights the problems faced by listed companies
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People & OpinionLeader: Can we stop the slide?
The true test of underwriting discipline will be how companies behave as rates continue to soften
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People & OpinionLeader: less than perfect
Rating agencies have their faults, but what's the alternative?
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People & OpinionLeader: how will it work?
No apologies for returning to the thorny issue of Solvency II
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Editor's Note
Leader: We salute you
“We probably empower our underwriters more than some of our peers do,” says Ulrich Wallin. The flip side, however, is that he pays them less than his peers do too.
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Leader: Room for doubt
There is still a great deal of uncertainty about future capital requirments under Solvency II
