Tony Dowding
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Asia
China offers bigger supply chain risk than Japan as insurers continue to eye opportunities
Reports from PwC and Aon Benfield published this week underline the huge potential of the Chinese insurance market but also…
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CRE Risk Management
IRM conference told profession must break free of finance function shadow
Business and risk management must avoid falling completely under the spell of the finance department, keynote speaker Anthony Hilton, Financial…
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Captives
Migration forecast as captive owners wait for clarity from EC
European captive domiciles that will implement Solvency II are putting on a brave face about the potential benefits of the…
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CRE Insurance
Rates under pressure and insurers need to tackle contingent losses
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, ‘a hard market’s a-gonna come’. Isn’t it? After the first quarter of 2011 with its string…
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CRE Insurance
Are your officers covered?
Tony Dowding reports on the rising demand for D&O coverage within global programmes and complexities and problems that risk managers…
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CRE Insurance
It’s all about the regulations
Praveen Sharma’s life would be so much simpler if only companies and their insurers didn’t breach insurance regulations around the…
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CRE Insurance
New dawn for credit insurance
Trade credit insurance has been on the front page over the last two years for all the wrong reasons. Huge…
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CRE Insurance
Export boost transforms German credit market
Germany is far from out of the economic woods but a recent set of encouraging export numbers and upwardly revised…
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CRE Insurance
Going global, acting local
Global programmes are top of the European risk management news agenda currently as buyers, brokers and insurers attempt to find…
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New dawn for credit insurance
Last year, and the year before, saw trade credit insurance on the front pages for all the wrong reasons. Huge…
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Association News
Policy wording and compliance the key issues for Global Programmes
As globalisation continues its march and organisations have to increasingly consider the issues surrounding global insurance programs, a workshop at…
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Association News
AIRMIC 2010 conference-highlights
This year's AIRMIC conference in Manchester attracted a record number of delegates and was a lively event during which many…
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Association News
AIRMIC bangs the drum
There wasn’t a cloud in the sky over Manchester during the recent AIRMIC conference, and the same could be said…
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Association News
Soft market set to continue says AIRMIC Forum panel
The soft market shows no sign of ending, according to experts on the AIRMIC Forum panel, who also questioned the…
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CRE Insurance
Vigilance needed to meet terrorism threat
The last few years have seen a relative dearth of terrorist attacks in the developed world–but the threat of a…
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CRE Insurance
Link between brain tumours and mobile phones inconclusive, says study
After ten years of research, conducted in 13 countries, and costing approximately €19.2m so far, the largest case control study…
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Association News
AIRMIC conference breaks all records but members believe soft market is over
With record numbers of AIRMIC members attending, and the largest ever exhibition, Paul Howard, AIRMIC’s Chairman, was in buoyant mood…
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Association News
Reputational risk top concern for AIRMIC members
Reputational risk is the leading concern for U.K. risk managers according to the annual survey of members carried out by…
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Association News
Captives under pressure
As debates continues as to the future role of captives, in light of the potential impacts of Solvency II and…
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CRE Insurance
Business warned to maintain vigilance on terror risk
The last few years have seen a relative decline in terrorist attacks in the developed world, but the threat of…