All People & Opinion articles – Page 10
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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 & OpinionIn my view: You can’t be too careful
With a soft market seeming inevitable, businesses will have to rely for survival on good practice built since the chaos of the late 1990s. But both brokers and underwriters will also need to adopt unprecedented levels of care and caution
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People & OpinionMonty
Our man packs his Louis Vuittons for his favourite gossip-fest, the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous
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People & OpinionMeasuring up the metrics
The PML concept is a fundamentally flawed approach to catastrophe risk management, argues Karen Clark, pointing to a lack of scientific data and an inability to adapt to large, complex organisations. So what measure should be used to assess and monitor risk instead?
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People & OpinionLeader: less than perfect
Rating agencies have their faults, but what's the alternative?
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People & OpinionOn the inside
Two reinsurance titans; one seriously demanding economic environment. We talk to the men in control, steering their operations towards growth, and mindful of the challenges ahead
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People & OpinionWeblog - September 2010
Danny Walkinshaw on the latest (re)insurance stories online
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People & OpinionA tower of strength for poorer nations
When volcanic ash halted air traffic, Seymour Matthews saw first-hand the devastation to Kenya’s export industry. Poorer countries need third-party contingency cover for such disasters, and reinsurers can and must work with governments to provide it
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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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Monty
Did someone say ‘Indian buffet’? Or does our inside man just have food (and drink) on the brain?
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Monty
First class lounge? Check. Fine wine? Check. Life as a grounded passenger is tough, you know
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People & OpinionProceed with caution
Reinsurance is currently a robust and cash-rich market, and has weathered the financial storm well. But now is not the time to get complacent write James Geffen and Mike Papworth of Miller.
