All Reinsurance articles – Page 16
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Online onlyReinsurance leaders address counterparty credit risk
Ulrich Wallin, Rolf Tolle and Chris Klein highlight the industry's next major challenges as part of the Kiln Roundtable 2009 in Monte Carlo.
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Global reinsurers will fight US tax plans
Concerns that Neal Bill tax plans could be fast-tracked as part of other financial legislation.
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Online onlyInflation ‘could be just 12 months away’
Reinsurers in Monte Carlo fear the effects of interest rate rises and impact on long-tail lines
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Online onlyOpposing views on reinsurer prospects at Monte Carlo
Scor CEO surprised by the industry outlook assigned by some rating agencies
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Online onlyXL relieved to be talking business again
Reinsurer dogged last year by questions over its own security has seen conversations return to business development at the Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez Vous
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Online onlyMonte Carlo special: reading between the lines
Amid the optimistic headlines coming from the Reinsurance Rendez-Vous lie some rather more pessimistic viewpoints
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Online onlySwiss Re hopes to regain ground
Reinsurance giant points to its increased capacity and potentially favourable market as reasons for optimism
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Online onlyCEOs show united front in Monte Carlo
Leading reinsurers form Global Reinsurance Forum to lobby decision makers on regulation, solvency and tax
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Cover StoryThe Risk Takers
Risk taking: we all do it, but some of us are are more skilled at it than others. But what would you rather do? Drive in an F1 race, gamble at cards – or underwrite at Lloyd’s? By Lauren MacGillivray and Mark Glendenning
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Features
In the middle
With the Middle East continuing to enjoy economic growth, James Sutherland looks at how to capture the full business potential of electronic risk trading in the region.
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FeaturesStill Fighting
The former AIG boss Hank Greenberg talks to David Banks, revealing his thoughts on the company he headed for 37 years, risk management, and his nemesis Eliot Spitzer
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Editor's NoteThe crash one year on
This time last year the financial world was tumbling around our ears, as Lehman Brothers and AIG became high profile casualties of the credit crisis. But one year on, the world as we know it has not vanished. Rumours of the death of capitalism appear to have been exaggerated. It ...
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Global Matters
Catastrophe modelling - a matter of trust
Now in its third year, the GR survey explains why readers trust catastrophe modelling more now than 12 months ago.
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FeaturesLet Battle Commence
Industry consolidation is a classic feature of the insurance cycle. But while buying a company can be relatively easy, buying the right company is far more difficult, writes Roger Crombie.
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GR Focus
Renewals review: A look ahead to year-end reinsurance negotiations
Hurricanes and the financial crisis took their toll on the insurance industry before the last renewals season, but how has it changed reinsurance pricing? In our annual Renewals Review, leading experts give their insight into pricing trends ahead of end-of-year reinsurance negotiations, describing where the opportunities will be in 2010.
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Features
The Global Reinsurance Top 40 (31-40)
31(17) Raymond Barrette Chairman and CEO, White Mountains Insurance Group This executive must have White Mountains running through his veins. In 2007 Raymond Barrette was brought out of retirement and the 58-year-old has been doing a very good job for the property and casualty insurer.Under his guidance, White Mountains ...
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Features
The Global Reinsurance Top 40 (21-30)
21(–) Mike O’Halleran Executive Chairman, Aon Benfield NEW ENTRYThe Benfield/Aon merger made the merged entity the largest reinsurance broker in the world and has rocketed O’Halleran into the list of the market’s most influential people.Even before the merger, O’Halleran had spent a career getting Aon Re ...
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Features
The Global Reinsurance Top 40 (11-20)
11(–) Ulrich Wallin CEO, Hannover Re NEW ENTRYUlrich Wallin has surely one of the toughest jobs in reinsurance – replacing Wilhelm Zeller, the man who led Hannover Re for 13 years. This is not something he can achieve overnight – and nor is he likely to ...
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The Global Reinsurance Top 40 (1-10)
GR presents its 2009 list of the most influential people in reinsurance. Influence, never an easy quality to quantify, can come from leadership of an important company – or from simply being good at what you do.
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Online onlyStorm Erika weakens in Caribbean
Tropical Storm Erika is fifth named Atlantic storm of 2009; AIR says Pacific storm Jimena could hit Mexican east coast at hurricane strength.
