Insurance
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It’s good to talk-Torsten Jeworrek
The Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the north east of the country will be one of the biggest…
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Strength through partnership-Mark Drummond Brady & Rory MacLeay
At the end of February JLT announced the appointment of Mark Drummond Brady as an executive director. Mr Drummond Brady…
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The power of networking-JLT
JLT is one of the world’s biggest insurance brokers but decided early on to adopt a network approach to serve…
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Footprint expanded on the back of higher revenues and profits-JLT
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) reported total revenue of £746.3m for the full year 2010 against £619.3m in 2009, an…
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Take time for reflection-Comment
The news of the death of Osama Bin Laden, former head of Al-Qaeda, so soon after the wave of political…
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Time for action on global programmes
When experts gathered in London for Commercial Risk Europe’s Global Programmes seminar last month it soon became very clear that…
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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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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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Dröse urges greater market cooperation on Solvency II lobbying effort
Günter Dröse, president of ECIROA and global head of corporate insurance at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, has called upon the…
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Rates under pressure as big reinsurers post huge cat losses for Q1
Europe’s big four reinsurance companies have reported an average combined ratio of 145.5%, combined major catastrophe losses of €5.029bn and…
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Niche approach key for German industrial insurers facing profit squeeze
German industrial insurers are enjoying rising premium income in key lines, but are suffering from margins that have been too…
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Tactics must evolve to meet new piracy threat, experts say
Somali piracy has taken an alarming turn for the worse in the first quarter of 2011 and governments and organisations…
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Geneva Association warns on systemic reform and says AIG not insurance failure
International financial regulators must avoid a ‘shotgun’ approach to regulatory reform that lumps the insurance sector in with the banks,…
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MAPFRE Q1 results boosted by Latin America performance
MAPFRE's move to grow its presence in the Latin American markets appears to be paying off, as first quarter results…
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Corporate round-up
QBE Italia moves into D&O market, Cooper Gay launches new International management team, Alastair Speare-Cole to join JLT Re as…
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Solvency II forecast to hit demand and supply for European corporate debt
Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings’ latest quarterly European fixed income investor survey, that represents the views of managers of an…
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US severe thunderstorm losses up to $5.5bn say AIR
AIR has estimated insured losses from the severe thunderstorm outbreak that struck the US between 22–28 April of between $3.7bn…
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Half of insurers fail to measure and manage risk culture warns consulting firm
Almost half of insurers do not have an effective way of measuring and managing the risk culture within their organisations,…
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Hidden costs of risk engineering can outweigh benefits
MSM Risk Management have warned of the hidden costs of risk engineering and added that without the correct approach the…
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Inconsistent models and Solvency II demand better model evaluation-broker
Due to inconsistencies within catastrophe models and the added uncertainty that Solvency II will bring to the allocation of capital…