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Safer earthquake-proof buildings.
New research by engineers from the University of Cambridge could lead to the construction of safer, ...
Europe's Goliaths under siege.
The liberalisation of the German market - the birthplace of many world-class reinsurers - has stripped it of its comfort zone. Adrian Leonard reports.
Appointment at Wellington Underwriting.
Wellington Underwriting has appointed Mark Cravens as vice-president, risk management, responsible f...
Eastern promise.
Privatisation and deregulation will heighten competition in the Middle East's markets over the next five years, says David Fanning.
Capital Re dividend.
Shareholders of Capital Re received a quarterly dividend of 4 cents a share at the end of September....
XL time switch.
Bermudian (re)insurance group XL Capital is to change its financial year to run to the end of the ca...
Eastern IT.
Lloyd's consortium Central & Eastern European Reinsurance Services (CERES) has established a joint v...
Appointment at Thomas Miller.
The new hull insurance syndicate formed by mutual insurance management company Thomas Miller and rei...
Brazilian hold-up.
Following the opening of Zurich Re's new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the firm now has to wait for n...
Appointment at International Insurance Society.
International Insurance Society, a New York-based non-profit educational organisation of executives,...
Web weather.
In an alliance with WeatherData, broker and risk management provider E.W. Blanch is to launch a web-...
Shift to excess of loss will halve reinsurance.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
CLASS tested at Lloyd's.
In a further attempt by the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA) and Lloyd's to ha...
New bill for bankruptcy.
Lisa Dorr examines the implications for non-US (re)insurers of proposed amendments to the US Bankruptcy Code.
Disasters waiting to happen.
Insufficient catastrophe reinsurance cover is being bought in many markets, despite overcapacity. Ulrich Schweizer and Maria-Elisabeth Fischer summarise the findings of Swiss Re's latest Catastrophe Market Research Project (CAMARES).
Watch for warnings.
Market trends become magnified in the reinsurance world. This was a truth brought home sharply at l...
Benfield Greig heads north.
Benfield Greig has announced the launch of Benfield Greig Canada, having, until recently, seen littl...
Winds of change blow gently.
Rates, rates and rates were the key topics of last month's reinsurance Rendez-Vous, but an upturn in the market is far from certain. Janina Clark reports from Monte Carlo.
Miller in Madrid.
The Miller Insurance Group has created a joint venture with Madrid-based reinsurance broker J.P. Bru...
A health-giving tonic for Asia.
Jeremy Golden asks whether health insurance will give Asia-Pacific's insurance markets the boost they need.
Appointment at Capital Re.
Bruce Reich (above) has joined US reinsurer Capital Re as executive vice-president and chief underwr...
Appointment at Gerling Global Re.
Gerling Global Re of America has made three appointments to its property underwriting team. Robert G...
Tales of the unexpected.
Last year Stephen Coward of Copenhagen Re described the challenges of starting a construction and engineering portfolio from scratch. A year on, he can look back on some major surprises.
Diving in at the deep end.
Taking over a top reinsurer with no experience of the market might frighten some people, but not Dave Calhoun. Janina Clark meets the new head of Employers Re.