All Global Reinsurance articles in March 2008
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Features
Ready for takeoff
The Gulf insurance market is set to double in the next three years to reach $4bn. Geoff Bromley takes a look at what is driving this incredible growth.
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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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Analysis
Troublemaker or lifesaver?
Allstate has managed to both irritate state regulators and delight its shareholders in the past 12 months. Nick Thorpe delves into the background of this insurance behemoth.
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Features
Jumping through hoops
Concerns are being raised that European regulation is becoming too stifling and could echo the stringent US model. Liz Booth investigates.
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Features
No guarantees
Huge losses, downgrades and fears of corporate defaults. If ever there was a case study in the risks associated with a monoline business model, the bond insurance sector has provided it. Helen Yates reports.
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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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GR Focus
No pain, no gain
The implementation of Europe-wide capital adequacy regulation, Solvency II, will be a huge landmark for the insurance industry. Set to be implemented by 2012, it will have a significant impact on the capital structures of insurance companies and how risk is managed. As organisations endeavour to become Solvency II-compliant, many ...
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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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Country Analysis
Emerald Isle
Partner Re, XL, Allied World, Quanta and Max Insurance are all based out there. No it’s not Bermuda but Dublin, Ireland that is becoming one of Europe’s most attractive reinsurance centres. Helen Yates reports.
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Editor's Note
Desert stampede
The fallout of subprime will be felt more keenly in today's global village than ever before
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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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GR Focus
Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
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Features
When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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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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Features
Black gold rush
There is a rush on. In case anyone failed to notice – reinsurance companies are scrabbling to set up shop in the Middle East. Mairi Mallon reports.
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Investment Analysis
Banging the drum for Bermuda
The absence of major catastrophe losses has meant another fantastic year for most Bermuda players. Investors should remain bullish despite softening reinsurance rates, argues Lindsey Rogerson.
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Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
