Association News
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Rates flat but buyers should prepare for increases says Airmic panel
Rates for corporate insurance may currently be flat, but buyers should prepare for increases in the longer term, according to…
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Boards urged to up their game as evidence shows risk blindness can lead to collapse
Events that bring down or seriously damage otherwise successful companies are normally the result of their boards’ failure to see…
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Global programmes is fastest rising concern
The compliance of global insurance programmes is the fastest-rising concern for Airmic members, according to a survey released yesterday in…
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Harvey reports record AIRMIC numbers
Nicola Harvey, outgoing chairman of AIRMIC and Group Risk Director of Christie’s, wound up her year in charge by reporting…
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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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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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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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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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FERMA to respond to EU proposals on corporate governance and risk management
FERMA is preparing its response to the European Commission’s latest discussion paper on corporate governance that includes focus on the…
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FERMA advises EC to calm down on collective redress
A Europe-wide approach to consumer collective redress driven by the European Union would have a seriously negative effect on the…
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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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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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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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Cartel fears could hamper German rate rises following cats-DVS
German industrial insurers could fail to achieve a market-wide hardening of rates and conditions because of fears of another probe…
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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…
