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Political violence, strikes and war added to terror as main threats to continuity—Aon
Aon has added acts of political violence, strikes and war to its annually produced and popular political risk map that…
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Chartis creates global programmes powerhouse in London
Chartis UK has launched a Multinational Centre of Excellence designed to provide customers and brokers with a focused source of…
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The critical glue-Comment
There has been much talk in recent years about the role of the broker in the risk management, distribution and…
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A big opportunity
Stuart Collins interviewed Paul Taylor, the new chairman of AIRMIC, and found a man keen to get his teeth into…
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‘Just get stuck in’
Nicola Harvey has enjoyed an eventful year in the AIRMIC chair. Stuart Collins asked her about what she felt the…
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Europe’s corporate brokers critical in chain but challenged to raise game
Europe’s corporate insurance brokers continue to play a critical role in the distribution of complex corporate risk for Europe’s largest…
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Broker suggests risk incubation via captives for cyber risks
With cyber risk in the news following Sony’s recent €2bn security breach loss and cyber attacks on the rise overall,…
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Rating outlook benign for foreseeable future say leading UK risk managers
Despite record catastrophe losses in the first quarter of 2011 commercial insurance rates are likely to remain flat, with many…
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Airmic launches mentoring scheme to polish up skills
Airmic’s new mentoring scheme, which aims to boost young risk manager’s careers and also give more senior risk managers a…
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Inex24 yet to convince DVS president with key players not on board
The president of the German risk managers’ association DVS is openly sceptical about the proposal for the new electronic insurance…
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Date agreed for market meeting to kick-start global programmes solution
FERMA and Airmic have fixed a date for a meeting with representatives of leading international insurers and brokers to try…
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Ladies@Risk wins NARIM Award
Yvonne du Floo, Quality and Risk Manager at Synbra Holding and Jacqueline Plessius, Global Insurance Manager at TNT, the ‘founding…
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Health and safety a burden says UK industry as BCC call for changes to regulation
Half of UK businesses believe that health and safety ‘yellow tape’ and regulations are a burden, according to a recent…
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UK’s Willis Ltd appoints new chairman and CEO
Willis Limited, the principal UK broking company of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings plc has announced that Rodney Baker-Bates…
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French mutuals descend on Berlin to promote pan-European mutual concept
They advanced stealthily and German insurers had no advance warning. French insurance bosses and their wives, 90 people altogether, of…
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MAPFRE and Mitsui Sumitomo extend global agreement
Spanish insurance group MAPFRE and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (MIS), the Japanese non-life insurance group, have extended their existing partnership agreement…
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French risk managers step up communication effort on risks
Risk managers are all too aware that it is not easy sometimes to talk about their jobs. People often do…
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Lloyd’s faces $3.8bn in claims from 2011 nat cats and says market will harden
Lloyd’s has estimated that it will face combined net claims from this year’s Japanese and New Zealand earthquakes and the…
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AMRAE and audit group urge active co-operation to raise risk profile
The recent financial and economic crisis that was sparked by the credit crunch has exposed the fact that most companies…
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Conference report- Italian risk managers believe cat market will harden following Japan disaster
Some Italian risk managers—many with first-hand experience in managing earthquake risk in their own country—expect the recent Japan quake to…
