Journals
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Spanish buyers call on insurers to give back lost capacity as results improve
As insurers post better results, Spanish risk managers believe the time has come to return some of that windfall to…
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Captive movement gains momentum
Anecdotally, there’s been an uptick in captive use, with parents increasing their captives’ retentions or limits on existing cover, while…
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Cyber insurance: Set to stabilise in year ahead as hard market peaks
Brokers believe the cyber insurance market could stabilise through 2022 and into next year. Things will be helped by more…
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Digital solutions are evolving to manage complex global programmes
“We really do live in an unconnected reality if we’re honest with ourselves,” said Jonathan Newbery, head of digital experience…
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Easier times or more of the same?
Conditions are easing for global programmes but there are still many challenges ahead and insurers are warning that things may…
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MGAs: A growing role in multinational insurance
How important a role in large corporate/multinational insurance do MGAs, MGUs, coverholders etc play? Mike Keating (MK): MGAs are playing…
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New European onshore domiciles on the way?
The captive sector has long been divided between onshore and offshore domiciles. In the last 20 years, the vast majority…
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Captive sector flourishing as market challenges remain
It is no surprise that a hard market has seen an increase in captive formations. Lorraine Stack, managing director, Marsh…
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Challenging times but improving market
The marine cargo sector is still dealing with the challenges that came to the fore in the pandemic with supply…
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Flexible benefits approach needed for new attitude to work
The world of work has changed dramatically in the last few years, partly due to Covid. There has been a…
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Work needed on LMA cyberwar exclusions to address buyer concerns
Buyers, brokers and insurers need to have open and frank discussions about the Lloyd Market Association’s (LMA) cyberwar clauses, which…
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Risk managers take on strategic role in face of ongoing crises, finds Ferma survey
The seemingly neverending set of crises during the last two years have provided a shot in the arm for risk…
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Ferma survey shows cyber and supply chain top risk agenda
Cyber risk and the threat of supply chain failure have shot up the European risk management agenda during the last…
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Ferma raises concerns with EC over Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (Ferma) is concerned about key aspects of the recently announced Corporate Sustainability Due…
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Construction sector needs to up its game on cyber risk management
A race to upgrade and digitalise workflows in the commercial construction and infrastructure industry, akin to an “arms race”, is…
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Growing renewables market faces evolving risks
The renewables sector is set for rapid growth, but energy companies and their insurers face rising natural catastrophe and business…
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Claims inflation and supply chain set to upset calming insurance market
UK risk managers are growing increasingly concerned that claims inflation risks leaving organisations dangerously underinsured. As far as risk managers…
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Labour forces dominate UK insurance market thinking
The ‘great resignation’ is very much a fact of business life in 2022, even though it is not being discussed…
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Insurance market hardening has eased a touch in Spain, say risk managers
Spanish companies continue to face a hard insurance market but rate increases have slowed in several lines and risk managers…
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Supply chain woes top the risk list for Spanish firms
The Covid-19 pandemic, a global logistics nightmare and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have put pressure on commodities markets and supply…