All Regions LIVE articles – Page 101
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Global Matters
Bermuda 2 London 0
Omega and Hiscox could have started a trend with their separate decisions to ditch London in favour of Bermuda.
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CEO Q&A
COO Q&A - Gerry Albanese
An interview with Gerry Albanese, president and chief operating officer of Markel International.
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Analysis
Munich Re - big is beautiful
Munich Re continues to pursue profitability over growth, discovers Nick Thorpe, despite losing its stronghold as the world's largest reinsurer.
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GR Focus
Terrorism - last chance saloon
After much speculation, the US federal terrorism backstop - TRIA - was renewed until December 2007. But is that enough time to find a viable long-term alternative? asks Nick Thorpe.
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Global Matters
Sense in diversity
Ariel Re's CEO advises Bermuda's monoline reinsurers against mindless diversification.
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Global Matters
Gambling with your life
A powerful Indian Islamic seminary has issued a fatwa banning Sunni Muslims from buying life insurance.
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Global Matters
The trouble with TRIA
A new GAO report finds TRIA severely lacking in the face of potential mega-events.
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Features
Discipline all the way
Property insurance may be softening in those regions outside of the US and Caribbean, but this is no reason for reinsurers to follow suit. Maintaining discipline is key in this environment, explains Heike Trilovszky.
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Features
Asbestos U-turn
Last month the UK government overruled the House of Lords by rewriting the law on asbestos payouts. Mairi Mallon reports on this unusual behaviour and its implications for insurers.
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Industry Matters
Building bridges
Alex Letts lists the benefits of peer-to-peer trading for the London market.
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Analysis
Buying spree continues
Jacqueline McGarry asks whether Australia's largest insurer might be about to go on another acquisition rampage.
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GR Focus
A capital idea
Patrick Devine looks at how the impending EU Reinsurance Directive will pave the way for insurance special purpose vehicles, or sidecars, to take-off in Europe.
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Global Matters
Insurer wins flood case
A judge's verdict in Mississippi could relieve reinsurers of billions.
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GR Focus
Collateralisation collision
The 100% collateral rule for foreign reinsurers doing business in the US has long been accused of unfairness. But a more level playing field could be just around the corner, explains Ronald Gift Mullins.
