All Reinsurance articles – Page 137
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Features
GR survey: climate change
One of GR's aims for 2007 is to encourage greater participation of its readers in the debates and issues shaping the industry. Each month, a short questionnaire will be sent out to our new "GR Benchmarking Club", with the results published in the magazine. Our first survey is on climate ...
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SupplementsERM and Solvency II - Introduction
With the Solvency II Directive due to be released in 2007, can enterprise risk management help prepare the industry?
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Supplements
The evolution of Solvency II
Some grave incoherencies remain in the Solvency II framework despite significant improvements in the most recent quantitative impact study.
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GR Focus
Feast or famine?
Is the reinsurance industry now overcapitalised? With prices now falling for many lines of business Christopher Kershaw and Andrew Poulton explain why there is too much capital in the market and what the consequences might be.
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Part of the furniture
Is the boom in capital market products coming to an end? With the industry anticipating record profits for 2006, Ronald Gift Mullins considers what impact this could have on the appetite of capital market investors.
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Country Analysis
Hitting the ground running
Energy-rich Middle Eastern state Qatar is poised for rapid change. With one of the biggest development projects in the world underway, its undeveloped insurance industry is targeted for massive reform. Helen Yates considers the country's bid to attract the world's insurers and reinsurers.
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GR Focus
The tipping point?
Does the 2007 renewal season represent a return to normality or is this the tipping point in the cycle? David Pannell examines some of the key trends.
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GR Focus
Retro-spective
The doomsday sayers would have you believe that retrocession all but disappeared in 2006. But there was plenty of capacity available at the 1 January renewals, discovers Helen Yates, although it remains painfully expensive.
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Features
Not what it says on the tin
A round-up of some key cases in the UK and the US in 2006 highlights some basic issues with follow-the-settlement and claims cooperation clauses, explain Ian McKenna, Wendy Allen-Rodney, Matthew Ingber and Jordan Rosenfeld.
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Benign 2006 bodes well for monolines
Mild storm activity in 2006 will prove fruitful for catastrophe-focused carriers, says Moody's
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Allianz expects €350m in claims from Kyrill
Allianz estimates claims resulting from Winstorm Kyrill could reach €350m before taxes.
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Two senior execs quit Converium
Converium has today confirmed that Frank Schaar and Christoph Ludemann are to leave the company...
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Storms and Florida laws to impact reinsurers
According to Guy Carpenter's US renewals report, severe storms and new Florida legislation could disrupt a "placid" reinsurance marketplace
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Everest reports $841m income for 2006
Everest Re reported net income for 2006 of $840.8m compared to a net loss of $218.7m a year ago
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Benign 2006 down to El Niño
Heightened hurricane activity is here to stay despite a benign 2006 season, says ReAdvisory
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Munich Re: Rates down 3% at renewals
Munich Re renewed about two thirds of its property casualty treaty business as at 1 January 2007
