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Views from the front line.
Reinsurance's first survey of executive opinion in South-east Asia offers a fascinating insight into the region. Jeremy Golden reports.
London portal opens.
Information provider Wire has created an electronic portal for the London market, called the Risk In...
Clear skies.
Eric Alexander discovers that hot-air ballooning is one of the safer aviation risks to underwrite.
Secura Belgian Re.
Secura Belgian Re increased its after-tax profit by 36% to BFr 409m ($11m) last year on gross premiu...
Commercial Risk MD.
Commercial Risk Partners has appointed Christopher Phelan as managing director of Commercial Risk Ca...
New standards for London.
With Lloyd's likely to turn the regulation of its brokers over to the General Insurance Standards Council, Adrian Leonard takes a look at the UK's new self-regulatory body.
Changes at Partner.
PartnerRe has appointed Bruno Meyenhofer as chief operating officer of its global reinsurance operat...
Playing chicken in space.
The space insurance sector has become "an elaborate game of chicken played by chunks of corporate ca...
Breakthrough for networks.
The long-awaited convergence agreement between the three electronic networks for the insurance indus...
LaSalle Re to boost reserves by $35m.
Bermudian reinsurer LaSalle Re is to add $35m to its reserves to compensate for the poor performance...
Hartford takes Vesta's reinsurance.
US insurer Hartford has acquired the ongoing reinsurance business of Vesta Fire Insurance, part of t...
Too many cooks spoil the run-off.
Leslie-Ann Giovnilli asks whether London companies should copy Lloyd's and create a single run-off company.
It is the thought that counts.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson's Steve McGill believes that brains count for more than brawn. Alex Beatty heard his views.
A matter of size.
The scope of a big company or the benefits of a smaller operation? Adrian Leonard hears both sides of the 'size matters' debate.
SOC buys SOLUA.
Lloyd's corporate vehicle Sedgwick Oakwood Capital (SOC) has bought the third largest members' agenc...
Dissecting the millennium bug.
In the first of four articles which will provide a definitive guide to investigating Y2K claims, Alan Fisher and Jill Hampton explain that even insurers using exclusion clauses will have to pay claims unless they can prove that a Y2K peril occurred.
Unicover - Danger: soft market.
Lawyers who have been struggling to find productive uses for their time since Lloyd's reconstruction...
Northern lights lack lustre.
The familiar story of fierce competition accompanied by a wave of mergers and acquisitions rings true in the Nordic markets. Alex Beatty reports.
Asia Survey - Asking the experts.
The first ever survey by Reinsurance of opinion among reinsurance executives in South-east Asia offe...
Generali takes space to London.
Italian insurer Generali has moved its space insurance department from Trieste to London. The cha...
Mapfre Re hit by hurricanes.
Hurricanes Georges and Mitch were the principal causes of a drop in pre-tax profit of well over a qu...
Astwood move prompts change.
News that Bermuda's Regis-trar of Companies, Kymn Astwood (pictured), is to join Goldman Sachs' rein...
XL Capital.
XL Capital has reported first quarter operating income of $138.2m or $1.22 per share, up from $95.8m...
Time to chase the bear.
Adrian Leonard talks to Copenhagen Re's new management about the company's recent difficulties and future goals.