All Global Reinsurance articles in September 2009
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AIG sells Taiwan life unit
$2.15 bn sale to new firm set up by Robert Morse and China Strategic Holdings
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Indonesian quake death toll tops 1000
Total number killed could number in the low thousands
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Online onlyCould broader risk spread harm cedent-reinsurer ties?
Contradicton in statements in Monte Carlo raises cedent concerns; brokers' role enhanced.
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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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Industry Matters
M&A: Shop till you drop
It seems that everyone agrees: the time is ripe for mergers and acquisitions in the reinsurance sector. Global Reinsurance asked four market practitioners for their views on the factors fuelling the appetite.
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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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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.
