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Lloyd’s sees profit rise but warns 2014 results will suffer from pricing pressure
Lloyd's new chief executive Inga Beale has warned of challenging conditions despite the market reporting record levels of revenues and…
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Talanx targets industrial growth despite underwriting loss in 2013
German insurance and reinsurance group Talanx AG has posted a record net profit in 2013, despite an underwriting loss in…
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CRA March 2014
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CRE March 2014
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New insurance details of missing Malaysia Airlines plane emerge
Further insurance arrangements of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 emerged this week with Etiqa Insurance & Takaful, the insurance unit of…
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German risk management community loses key players to insurance industry
Germany's risk management community lost two prominent members to the insurance industry over the last week with Klaus Greimel of…
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RIMS concerned by onerous health and safety rule changes in US
RIMS has warned that proposed rule changes governing health and safety reporting for all organisations operating in the US would…
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Global energy sector an open invitation to cyber hackers warns Marsh
The global energy sector is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks with its adoption of internet-based industrial control systems (ICS) an…
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Hannover and Scor post record profits as European reinsurers perform strongly
Europe's third and fourth largest reinsurers, Hannover Re and Scor, have both posted record profits for 2013. The positive figures…
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Shipping losses decline but emerging risks need attention: AGCS
Worldwide shipping losses fell 20% to 94 last year, continuing the downward trend over the last decade, according to Allianz…
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Corporate round-up
Aon buys Lorica Employee Benefits, AGCS appoints new chief claims officer to management board, ACE expands environmental offering with crisis…
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ABI places UK’s bad weather losses at £1.1bn
Insurance losses from the recent bad weather in the UK will total an estimated £1.1bn, according to the Association of…
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Competitive Swiss market but discipline remains-Fitch
Competition in the Swiss insurance market remains high but participants are maintaining underwriting discipline, according to a new report by…
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Editor’s comment–Travel broadens the mind but there are risks too
Establishing and coordinating a multinational insurance programme is hard work and time-consuming. To sell the programme to local subsidiaries, the…
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Japan market report
The Japanese insurance market is mature and has become increasingly concentrated. Today, it is dominated on the non-life side by…
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Exploring master and local policies–Nigel Brook, partner at Clyde & Co
Multinationals' risk managers and insurance buyers have an ever-increasing choice of insurers who can offer global programmes–a combination of local…
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Global programmes: still easier said than done?
Is it getting any easier to establish a global programme? International Programme News asked the experts what they think.
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Changing landscape for D&O in Brazil
The D&O insurance market is booming in Brazil as executives of large companies become more exposed to the risk of…
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IAIS under pressure over global programmes
One of the biggest problems faced by companies and their brokers and insurers when putting together a multinational programme is…
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Special new horizons for global programmes
Multinational insurance programmes are usually focused on conventional property and casualty risks, with companies frequently purchasing separate insurance policies to…
