Tony Dowding
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Association News
Captives still in the dark over Solvency II
“Everything is still uncertain.” This is probably not what you want to hear at the start of a captive insurance…
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CRE Insurance
EIOPA must rescue overly ambitious SII warns KPMG
KPMG has warned that Solvency II has become too ambitious given its current deadline and called for greater guidance from…
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Climate Change
Environmental risk climbs agenda but mitigation remains muted finds survey
Environmental issues are the number one emerging risk for mid-sized companies across Europe and a growing concern for all firms,…
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Asia
Corporate round-up
Willis rolls out all risk D&O cover in Asia Pacific
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CRE Insurance
S&P expects Eurozone to stay together as growth returns
Standard & Poor's (S&P) does not expect the Eurozone to break up, adding that it should gradually climb out of…
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Association News
Insurance leaders remind buyers that innovation costs money
Top insurance bosses expressed concerns about pressures on capital and the parallel fast-rising demand from customers for ever-greater innovation during…
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Association News
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Insurance bosses were invited by AMRAE to debate in Deauville whether anything has changed in the insurance industry since the…
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CRE Insurance
World Economic Forum says socioeconomic risks now top agenda
The world has seen a shift of concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks in the past year, according to…
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Climate Change
Companies not ready for new Russian liability law on hazardous materials
Organisations that operate in the Russian Federation have been warned to take note of new legislation that could affect insurance…
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CRE Insurance
Political, credit and security cover buyers can expect softening market in 2012—JLT
Market conditions are improving for buyers of credit, political and security risks (CPS) insurance as high capacity, falling business volumes…
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CRE Insurance
It’s official—Year end renewals signal calm year for corporate insurance buyers
Leading reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter confirmed building evidence that insurance buyers need not fear a dramatic change in price and…
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Association News
Association News
Ferma picks Versailles for October Seminar
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Association News
Airmic casualty benchmarking survey reveals buyers’ concerns
Global casualty insurance programmes have felt little impact from global economic and political uncertainty, according to the second annual casualty…
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Climate Change
Communicating deeper uncertainties and living with micromorts
David Spiegelhalter classes himself as a professor of risk encouragement. In fact, he is Winton Professor for the Public Understanding…
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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…
