All Global Reinsurance articles in May 2008
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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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Cover Story
Raising the Titanic
If New York’s Insurance Exchange was such a failure in the 1980s, why would regulators want to recreate a similar one today? Ronald Gift Mullins discovers that many people think the time is now right to establish a “Lloyd’s” in NYC.
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Analysis
Navigating stormy seas
Greenlight Re is in capital-preservation mode. The Cayman-based reinsurer, which has a dual engine strategy, split between liabilities and equity, is playing it safe in both the volatile stock markets and softening reinsurance environment. Mairi Mallon reports.
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GR Focus
London market: Time to move on
With rumours that Lloyd’s could be developing a new central platform, Marcus Alcock asks if the ghost of Kinnect has been finally laid to rest.
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Investment Analysis
Investment: Spreading nasty rumours
Using negative market sentiment for positive gain has become an increasingly prevalent fact of life. As the downturn in the global financial markets gathers pace, the vultures are circling, discovers Lindsey Rogerson.
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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
The next generation
The burgeoning Asian reinsurance market is here to stay, says Wee Choo Neo.
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Features
Lighting the way forward
In a competitive sector, another year of record profits and benign catastrophe losses are simply exerting more downward pressure on energy reinsurance rates. But there is still some opportunity for reinsurers, discovers Jon Guy.
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Editor's Note
Exorcising the ghost
Our bold headline this month “Raising the Titanic” (page 10 onwards) is about the renewed efforts to establish a New York Insurance Exchange, 20 years after the previous attempt failed dramatically. Efforts to establish a “Lloyd’s” in New York in the 1980s came a cropper. The market was seen as ...
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Features
Captive king
Despite its grand ambitions, the Cayman Islands is not yet a serious rival to Bermuda’s reinsurance crown. But it is the world’s second-largest captive jurisdiction. Ana Paula Nacif reports.
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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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GR Focus
The talent time bomb
Those who are managing the world’s biggest risks are neglecting one of the major hazards for their own business – continuity of skills. David Banks looks at the talent crisis facing the London market and its interests abroad.
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Features
Bermuda shorts in Lloyd’s
Bermudians flocked to Lloyd’s last year, driven by the need to diversify into new markets. Given the two-way traffic between the jurisdictions, do Bermudians and Londoners make a natural fit? Or are Bermuda shorts proving a chilly option for Lloyd’s? Mairi Mallon investigates.
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Country Analysis
Germany: Waking the bear
Germany’s strong economy and heavyweight reinsurance players can do little to hold back the credit crisis. Many recognise the impact of subprime will go much deeper than first thought, as Herbert Fromme reports.
