RM News
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Boom time for actuaries and solvency experts
Hard evidence is mounting that now is the age of the actuary as the European insurance market steps up efforts…
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Bermuda captive premium falls but assets healthier
The Bermuda captive insurance market, the biggest in the world, unsurprisingly showed a fall in gross premiums written last year…
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Confusion reigns in Spain over environmental liability
Spanish companies are seriously ill-prepared for the expected rise in environmental liabilities following the introduction of the Environmental Liability Directive…
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Court ruling re-fuels contingents debate
U.S. and European insurance buyers will be pleased to hear that a U.S. federal appeals court has decided to restore…
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FERMA names new team at the top
Julia Graham of the U.K. and Jorge Luzzi of Italy have been named as Vice Presidents of FERMA soon after…
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All rosy in the U.K. insurance buyer’s garden
U.K. insurance buyers will have left the AIRMIC 2010 conference in Manchester relieved to hear that the cost of coverage…
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AIRMIC bangs the drum
There wasn’t a cloud in the sky over Manchester during the recent AIRMIC conference, and the same could be said…
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Soft market set to continue says AIRMIC Forum panel
The soft market shows no sign of ending, according to experts on the AIRMIC Forum panel, who also questioned the…
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Willis CEO urges brokers to embrace transparency
With the thorny issue of broker remuneration still under consideration at the European Commission, as part of its review of…
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Policy wording and compliance the key issues for Global Programmes
As globalisation continues its march and organisations have to increasingly consider the issues surrounding global insurance programs, a workshop at…
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Captive owners ‘optimistic’ about latest Solvency II developments
It seems increasingly likely that Solvency II will not hit captives as hard as originally feared based on the latest…
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Now is the time to act-Comment
It has been an exceptionally busy time for the team at Commercial Risk Europe over the last couple of months…
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NARIM – Confidence in insurance industry undermined by Solvency II issues
At the annual NARIM conference held last month key themes were member concerns over Solvency II and the need for…
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Narim – risk managers urged to extend frontiers
Insurance risk managers need to sell the value of insurance to senior colleagues to avoid corporate isolation, according to experts…
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Insurance buying will not impress the board concludes PolRisk event
Risk professionals must focus their efforts to help their organisations achieve their objectives and help ensure that key management decisions…
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Don’t ignore the soft stuff
Most attention on Solvency II so far has focused upon the capital requirements. But Jonathan Groves argues that risk managers…
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Work in progress
Ben Norris met Kevin W. Knight, Chair of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) working group that developed the ISO…
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Risk gospel must spread out as well as up–AMRAE
French risk managers may have gained the ear of top management in recent times because of the financial and economic…
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Battle lines drawn for Solvency II as QIS5 published
CEIOPS has issued the technical specifications for QIS5, its final field test for Solvency II if all goes to plan,…
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Den Dekker scoops second award in a month
Peter den Dekker, the President of FERMA, won two awards over the last month for his services to the profession…
