All Supplements articles – Page 4
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SupplementsClimate change 2007 - Introduction
This supplement highlights the risks and opportunities that that climate change brings, and how by means of example, innovation and service, more profit will sweep into your business.
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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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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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Why ERM is good for business
How much impact can an effective risk management strategy have upon a company's ratings?
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Model Wordings - Introduction
As the London market prepares itself for the final contract certainty push, the importance of model wordings has never been so high on the agenda. Contract certainty is defined by the Market Reform Group as "the complete and final agreement of all terms (including signed down lines) between the insured ...
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Roundtable Part 3
Andy Brookes: Paul, are your members up for that?Paul Hopkin: Yes I believe they are. I was just having a wry smile at the thought of the broker being stuck in the middle, but that is the case almost by definition. There is an increasing understanding on the part of ...
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Roundtable Part 2
Simon Robinson: Therefore, you are talking about the value of that whole package, rather than pure price?Paul Hopkin: Yes.Andy Brookes: Simon you were questioning if insurers accurately price the change in coverage that comes from changing the wording, a world where changes in coverage were clearly priced. Is that a ...
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Roundtable participants
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:Stevan Corbett, Claims manager at Partner Re and roundtable chairman (France)Dr Axel Biagosch, Arbitrator and former executive board member of Axa Konzern (Germany)Robert Bisson, Director general of CMGL Europe's French division (France) Charlotte Boij, Managing director, Wasa Insurance Run-Off Co (Sweden)Thomas Freudenstein, Head of claims, Global General & Reinsurance ...
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SupplementsEuropean Run-off Roundtable - Introduction
As the run-off industry in Continental Europe grows, what challenges lie ahead and is the market prepared?
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Life Report - Introduction - That's Life
It's all change on the life reinsurance front. Since Global Reinsurance produced last year's life report, further consolidation, new entrants and dramatic downgrades have changed the face of this traditionally steady industry.
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New York Roundtable - Life Reinsurance at a crossroads
Global Reinsurance assembled a number of key executives from the life reinsurance industry in New York to discuss the current and future state of the industry. The participants brought a range of perspectives, with well-established players and new entrants both represented. Some of the key themes included declining demand, consolidation, ...
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The Circle of Life
With life expectancy on the rise, new markets opening up and continued globalisation and consolidation, Pat Malloy looks at the changing face of life reinsurance.
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The Beauty of Securitisation
Life securitisation is approaching make or break time and as Dan Ozizmir reveals, it is likely to become an increasingly attractive risk transfer option.
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Roundtable Part 2
Life without reinsuranceRonn Mullins: Consider that one dark day; life insurers decided they didn’t want to reinsure their policies with life reinsurers. What alternatives would they have to transfer their risks, relieve reserves, and replenish their surplus? And are any of these mechanisms available today, or will there be in ...
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Buying Strategies Roundtable
PARTICIPANTSThomas Blunck, Member of the Board of Management, Munich Reinsurance CompanyRupert Boswell, Partner, Reynolds Porter ChamberlainJeremy Brazil, Director of Reinsurance & Director of London Underwriting, Markel InternationalMatthew Grant, Managing Director, Risk Management SolutionsPeter Grove, Finance Director and Chief Underwriting Officer, QBEDavid Priebe, President and CEO, Guy Carpenter EuropeMarcus Rivaldi, Senior ...
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SupplementsBuying strategies roundtable - Introduction
In the aftermath of the hyperactive 2005 hurricane season, the value of reinsurance to the cedant has increased immeasurably.
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Buying Strategies Roundtable Part 3
Thomas Blunck: Peter, I am happy that you said that and I didn't have to, and I agree that it relies on relationships, but the manner of the relationship has changed. We look into each other's eyes and then talk about very sophisticated analytics: we go into data, we go ...
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Buying Strategies Roundtable Part 2
Helen Yates: Looking back at last year's hurricane season, this has had a very big impact on various different aspects of the industry. We have obviously got these alternatives to reinsurance, which are growing in importance, but we have also seen adjustments to catastrophe models and from the rating agency ...
