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SupplementsEuropean Run-Off Roundtable - Introduction
The European run-off market is experiencing a significant shift in focus explains Helen Yates
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Participants
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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SupplementsBuying Strategies - Introduction
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
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
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
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
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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Participants
Rhydian Williams(Chair) Head of Pools, Security & Insolvencies, Resolute Management Services (Equitas)Lee BrandonCEO, PRO Insurance SolutionsPeter HartleySenior Manager, Spectrum Syndicate ManagementPeter HughesDirector, Standard & Poor’sSean McDermottDirector, Quest GroupBeth ReesTechnical Specialist, Run-off Team, Financial Services AuthorityTom RiddellPartner, KPMGMark SimpsonManager, PRO Insurance SolutionsNick StimpsonDivisional Director, Discontinued Operations, CMGLDavid VaughanCEO, TAWAMaik WandresGroup CEO, ...
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SupplementsRun-off revival - Introduction
Slowly but surely the ingrained prejudices about run-off are changing. This sizable and increasingly profitable business is no longer viewed as a “dead industry” but as a lucrative and innovative sector, which is attracting the keen attention of savvy investors.
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Roundtable 4
Nick Stimpson: The consolidation side of it is an inevitable consequence of a developing and evolving market in a sense. With products being as they are in the market, I think there will be more consolidation over time because I suspect that pressures will be brought to bear on them. ...
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Roundtable Part 3
Tom Riddell:?There are two ways to look at it though. I do not believe schemes are the solution for companies with a really high credit rating and a direct book. I think schemes are fine for reinsurance books, and for companies with a low credit rating. Schemes are something which ...
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Roundtable Part 2
Maik Wandres: I agree. I do not see anything wrong with it. I would almost call it “capital recycling” because that will certainly be an issue and come to people’s attention under Solvency II by 2010. In the UK, the individual capital adequacy standards have had a big impact in ...
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Roundtable Part 1
Rhydian Williams: Good morning and welcome to the Global Reinsurance London Market Run-off Roundtable. Certainly, run-off’s profile today is bigger than ten years ago. It is clearly in the market and growing. Is it expanding, or is it simply that the boundaries are being redefined? If it is booming, who ...
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Roundtable Part II
Helen Yates: Is there an opportunity to introduce an electronic trading platform in the market? Would this be attractive to potential newcomers?Fetooh Al Zayani: We are only facilitators but I hope that companies, both local and international, will help us in creating demand and awareness of the use of the ...
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Liquid Goldmine
The insurance industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has made rapid strides in recent years. Salah El-Kadiri assesses whether the sector is experiencing a genuine boom.
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SupplementsThe Middle East - Introduction
The Middle East, and the states within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in particular, are attracting intense interest from the international insurance and reinsurance community. Put simply, the “carrot” is the incredible opportunities present in the region
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The Middle East: Mirage or oasis?
Is the Middle Eastreally a market of the future for the international insurance and reinsurance industry? Or has it been oversold? In an effort to glean some answers, Peter Joy presents some of the results of an extensive research project conducted by Global Reinsurance on behalf of the Qatar Financial ...
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Roundtable discussion: Middle Eastern opportunities
IntroductionOn 27 March, Global Reinsurance hosted a roundtable discussion on the opportunities in the Middle East. The discussion was held in the Sharq Village & Spa in Doha, Qatar, following the MultaQa Qatar conference, which the Qatar Financial Centre Authority hosted in association with Global Reinsurance. For this reason, there ...
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Takaful comes into its own
Although the concept is far from new, recent years have seen takaful insurance booming, says Shirish Nadkarni.
