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    Participants

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Barnes, Securis Investment PartnersAndrew Brooks, Chief Underwriting Officer, Ascot UnderwritingAlan Fowler, Group Reinsurance Director, Royal & SunAlliancePeter Grant, Director, Standard & Poor’sAndrew Kail, Partner, Pricewaterhouse-CoopersSimon Kilgour, Partner, Reynolds Porter ChamberlainAlex Letts, Chief Executive, RI3KEric Paire, Managing Director, European Solutions Group Leader, Guy CarpenterNigel Ralph, Senior Property Underwriter, Ace Tempest ...

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    Buying Strategies - Introduction

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    There is growing evidence to suggest that buying strategies, as we once knew them, have changed dramatically. The emergence of non-traditional reinsurance solutions, technology and enterprise risk management are just some of the current influences affecting how reinsurance is bought.

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    Roundtable Part 4

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Eric Paire: If I can come back to the technology again. One thing we are now able to do systematically is to track all the quotes we receive against the final order and the reaction of the reinsurers. In other words, it allows us to present our clients with some ...

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    Roundtable part 3

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Nigel Ralph: We are only seeing the start of electronic trading. It has a long way to go. We have seen massive initiatives, especially in Lloyd’s, and much of it being driven by Bermuda, certainly in the reinsurance market. I think the product still is not as good as it ...

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    Roundtable Part 2

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Eric Paire: That is a point that leads back to the earlier discussion. Effectively when you start to look at your exposure from an ERM perspective or a Solvency II perspective, when you have some rating agencies talking about cat exposures based on 250 year events in the aggregate, then ...

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    Roundtable Part 1

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Helen Yates: Thank you for coming along this morning. Today we’re going to be talking about reinsurance buying strategies. To begin with, I would like to ask what you consider to be the key elements of a successful reinsurance buying strategy.Alan Fowler: The first key element is to know your ...

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    Buying strategies roundtable - Introduction

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    In the aftermath of the hyperactive 2005 hurricane season, the value of reinsurance to the cedant has increased immeasurably.