All Windstorm articles – Page 20
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RenRe wind wall to aid hurricane research
RenaissanceRe will develop a wall of wind to replicate the impact from Category 4 hurricanes
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PCI: Mississippi AG proposals are "draconian"
The PCI has rejected proposals that would require insurers selling auto insurance in Mississippi to also sell homeowners policies.
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CME and Carvill launch hurricane index futures
CME and Carvill to provide hurricane index futures and options on futures contracts
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GR Focus
The tipping point?
Does the 2007 renewal season represent a return to normality or is this the tipping point in the cycle? David Pannell examines some of the key trends.
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Investment Analysis
You can't predict the weather
Dire predictions for the industry a year ago have been largely disproved as reinsurers kickstart 2007 boasting massive profits. So is the outlook more upbeat now? Asks Lindsey Rogerson.
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Cover Story
A bumper year
2006 is being hailed an abundant year of profits for reinsurers with Mother Nature providing some respite following record losses in 2005. But it's too soon to start celebrating, warns Mairi Mallon.
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Runaway train
There is no holding back the soaring rates on US wind-exposed lines, while in the rest of the world prices are likely to remain level or even soften at the 1 January renewals. And so continues the tale of two markets, despite a non-existent hurricane season, discovers Mairi Mallon.
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Investment Analysis
Top of the Class
It's just over a year since the Class of 2005 entered the Bermuda market. Lindsey Rogerson takes a look at how they have faired in their first year and what prospects lie ahead.
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The $40bn question
Will Europe experience its own Katrina? European insurers need to prepare for winter storm losses far beyond those experienced to date, warn Yorn Tatge and Peter Dailey.
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Investment Analysis
Opportunity knocks
With the 2004 and 2005 storm seasons clearly etched in their minds, some investors are overreacting every time the wind blows and missing an opportunity, explains Lindsey Rogerson.
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Industry Matters
Anticlimax
Dr Steve Smith examines why this year's so far benign hurricane season is not living up to expectations.
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Navigating stormy seas
There has been much discussion regarding the state of the marine and energy markets following last year's hurricanes. Nick Bonnar explains how many previously held assumptions have changed.
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A market in turmoil
Can the US property reinsurance market survive another active season? Peter Middleton examines the chances.
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Global Matters
Huffing and puffing
What does a children's fairytale have to do with research into hurricane damage?
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Cover Story
When the wind blows
If "Katrina" was the word on everybody's lips at last year's Rendez-Vous, this year it is "capacity". With the gap between the hard and soft markets widening, Helen Yates considers what might be on underwriters' minds come this Monte Carlo gathering.
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Investment Analysis
There she blows
The profitability of the reinsurance industry appears inextricably linked to the continuing hurricane season. Lindsey Rogerson investigates.
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Features
The winds of change
Last year's dark storm clouds may cast a longer lasting shadow over the Bermudian reinsurance industry than ever before, finds Lilla Zuill, with some of the view that fundamental changes to how the sector does business is the only way to go
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Softening the blow
Despite record industry losses following last year's hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, many insurers and reinsurers managed to offset potentially devastating year-end results with strong investment returns, finds Ronald Gift Mullins
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Service will be resumed
In the aftermath of the US hurricanes, business interruption has become a topical issue, but it is often misunderstood Ling Ong, Catherine Rawlin and James Stanbury consider some of the legal and practical accounting issues arising after a major catastrophe.
