All Global Reinsurance articles in November 2007
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SCOR delists ADS and deregisters in the US
Intends to reduce its regulatory compliance burden following acquisition
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Enstar buys Cobalt/Gordian for $518m
AMP has sold the runoff operations for a profit of $73m
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Industry Matters
Sink or swim
Finding reliable flood data remains a major obstacle to modelling, says Dr Justin Butler.
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Features
The lure of run-off
Warren Buffett has started another trend. Run-off is now in vogue with canny investors. Marcus Alcock weighs up the attractions.
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Industry Matters
The missing link
Securitisation will only become a viable secondary market if data improves, argues Igor Best-Devereux.
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Analysis
Spreading its wings
Brit may be a staunchly pro-London insurer, but with its Bermuda sidecar and new Gibraltar venture it is broadening its horizons. Emma Jones looks at the progress of an ambitious player.
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Investment Analysis
Investing in the future
The rapid growth of emerging insurance markets suggests future profits lie in distant shores. Lindsey Rogerson turns her gaze to China, India and the Middle East.
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Features
Directors in the dock
Much has been made of the potential fallout from the subprime crisis on the insurance industry. Simon Goldring and John Bruce examine some of the existing and potential litigation targets.
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Features
GR Survey: Converging markets
The capital markets and the insurance industry are moving ever closer. But are risk transfer products really here to stay? Nick Thorpe presents the results from this month’s readership survey.
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Country Analysis
Ripe for consolidation
Six years after it was opened up for private participation, the Indian insurance industry looks headed for a period of heightened M&A activity, predicts Shirish Nadkarni.
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Features
Capital market revolution
Capital market solutions will transform the industry, predicted delegates at our Insuring Climate Change conference. Helen Yates reports.
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Features
You can run but you can't hide
Andrew Ward examines the continued growth of run-off in Continental Europe and asks what effects Solvency II will have on the industry?
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Features
Tempest brewing offshore
Insurers and reinsurers in the US have reignited the debate surrounding offshore reinsurers’ ability to dodge US income tax. Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
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CEO Q&A
CEO Q&A: Bassem Kabban
An interview with Bassem Kabban, chief executive officer of United Insurance Brokers.
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GR Focus
Back to the future
Hurricane Katrina’s floating casinos were an expensive lesson in how poor data quality can cost insurers millions of dollars. Two years on, Matthew Grant looks at what has improved.
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GR Focus
Avoiding a bloodbath
Fears that falling rates may herald another bloodbath underestimate the technical knowledge that reinsurers have acquired, argues Raj Ahuja.
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Industry Matters
Keeping Lloyd's attractive
There can be no resting on laurels at Lloyd’s of London, warns Rolf Tolle.
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Industry Matters
All together now
A unified response is the only way to meet the European Commission’s concerns, argues Nathan Willmott.
