GRM Comment & Opinion
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First half results show profit growth for insurers and brokers
So what have we learned from the first half-year results of insurers and brokers? It seems that despite a challenging…
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The insurance market – good in parts
It’s a strange old insurance market at the moment. We’re still in a hard market phase, albeit moderating and in…
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Rock and a hard place
Multinationals and their insurers are finding themselves increasingly stuck between a rock and hard place when it comes to ESG…
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Airmic warns of anti-ESG challenge facing members
Airmic is warning members of a big “challenge” from anti-ESG legislation in the US, while calling for more “consistency” on…
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Past no longer guide to the future on weather-related construction risks
Construction risk managers and their insurers can no longer rely on historical data for climate-related risk and must instead use…
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IFRS 17 gives risk managers sharper tool to analyse insurer performance
Risk and insurance managers need to keep a close eye on the financial performance and health of their leading carriers…
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What goes around comes around: reinsurance renewals hit insurers hard
It wasn’t so long ago that risk and insurance managers were accusing insurers of a knee-jerk reaction leading to a…
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Time to get back on the front foot
This has been quite a year for the European and global risk and insurance management community, and I am sure…
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Atlantic hurricane seasons getting longer and broader
There’s an old saying in the Caribbean about hurricanes: June too soon, July stand by, August it must, September remember,…
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The challenges faced by risk managers – one risk manager’s viewpoint
Global Risk Manager talks to Sharon Xu (XU Tong), director, Marriott Asia-Pacific insurance, risk management, about the challenges she has…
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Tough reinsurance renewals ahead do not bode well for primary renewals
For the last six months, the accepted view has been that the hard market is slowly and surely on the…
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Technical underwriting is sustainable underwriting: Haagen
Commercial Risk’s Adrian Ladbury interviews Henning Haagen, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) board member and chief regions and markets…
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Brazil market update: ILS legislation on the way
Tony Dowding talked to João Marcelo Santos, founding partner of Santos Bevilaqua Advogados, and former director and deputy superintendent of…
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Ten most difficult things about global insurance programmes
As everyone knows, global insurance programmes aren’t easy, but they are necessary and important. Obviously there are many benefits, but…
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Ten reasons why you need a global insurance programme
It may feel as though globalisation is currently under attack, as wars, sanctions and pandemics threaten global business, nationalism appears…
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A high point for risk management?
As the world seems to lurch from one crisis to another, risks to businesses multiply and expand, and the insurance…
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Ten positives about the hard market for risk/insurance managers
A hard market is never good news for risk and insurance managers. And especially when it comes after an economic…
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Just where are we on contract certainty and clarity?
For a good few years now (and perhaps it has always been the case), risk managers and insurance buyers have…
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Season’s greetings: predictions and new year’s resolutions
Times are gloomy but it is important to remember what the festive season is all about. Renewals. Only joking, obviously…
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