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Risk Management
Brazilian risk managers rising to the challenge
Following the publication of our annual European Risk Frontiers survey at the Ferma symposium in Antwerp, we embarked on the global follow-up – Global Risk Frontiers – by attending the…
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Risk Management
Latin American risk managers must seize the day
The role of risks managers has evolved in recent years in Latin America, although in many cases they still have little contact with the higher echelons of their companies. Participants…
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Association News
Revamped Brazilian association aims to boost risk managers’ strategic role
Brazil’s risk management association has restructured itself and is now looking to expand its presence both domestically and abroad in order to boost the profession in the country. It was…
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Latin America
Brazilian risk managers seek alternatives as hard market bites
The hard insurance market has belatedly arrived in Latin America, where prices and capacity continue to be under pressure, despite a relative loosening in global markets in recent months. As…
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Latin America
Tailor-made policies come to Brazil
A big development in Brazil’s commercial insurance market has been the implementation of a rule, in 2021, that gives buyers and underwriters the freedom to negotiate the wordings of their…
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Legal & Regulation
Securities class actions risks loom for Brazilian companies
Brazilian companies may face an intensification of D&O risks as the government drafted a bill that enables minority shareholders to launch securities class actions against listed companies, experts warned during…
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Latin America
New bill threatens capacity for corporate risks in Brazil
A bill that creates an Insurance Code in Brazil has spooked corporate insurance buyers, who fear that it may reverse market improvements recently seen in the country. The PLC 29/2017,…
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Latin America
HDI forges ahead in Brazil and wider Latin American market
Following the acquisition of select Liberty Mutual Insurance businesses in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador earlier this year, Talanx Group moves up to third place in the property and casualty insurance…