Regulation
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.
Chartered Insurance Institute Conference 1974.
Ahead of next month's Chartered Insurance Institute conference we look back at the issues of the day...
In need of a transfusion.
Grant Ellis believes fresh young blood needs to be attracted to the insurance industry if it is to move forward successfully.
Who's who at Pru.
In a shake-up of senior staff at Prudential, the managing director of Prudential Corporate Pensions ...
Fears over cost of running GISC's regime.
The costs of handling complaints under the regime proposed by the General Insurance Standards Counci...
The State of the Market - analysis of the UK non-life industry.
A Post Magazine Conference, 4 November 1999.
Time for a commercial break.
The government should change the rules to allow owners of small businesses to sell their commercial ...
Destination Tokyo.
Insurance supervisors from around the world will meet in Tokyo next week for a seminar on insurance ...
Exclusive - Eurobase in deal to target Eastern Europe.
Central and Eastern European Reinsurance Services (CERES), the Lloyd's consortium focusing on easter...
New recruit for Broker Alliance.
The Broker Alliance, a partnership of Yorkshire-based insurance and financial services brokers forme...
Lloyd's takes Bull by the horns in £26m IT first.
Integris, the managed services division of Bull Information Systems, has won a £26m contract from Ll...
Another chapter in RSA's life story.
Following an article in last week's edition (PM 16 September, p3), I would like to reassure readers ...
Aviation market shrugs off Britannia crash.
Loss? What loss? That's the message from the UK aviation insurance market following the crash of Bri...
Spain tastes gain amid pain.
The insurance sector in Spain is continuing to grow in importance but, explains Jose Sanchez-Crespo, expect growth to slow this year as the industry works to accommodate internal and external challenges.
Non-life go ahead for Sampo.
Sampo Poland has been granted a licence to sell all non-life insurance lines in the east European na...
Crash landings.
Not even the comic timing of Georg Mehl, president of the International Union of Marine Insurance, could detract from the bleak analysis of the market at the 125th anniversary meeting in Berlin last week, reports Alex Broad.
Let's get ready to grumble.
The Financial Services Authority has told consumers to complain if they are overcharged or faced wit...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY TELEGRAPH A woman who brightened up a roadside verge with a display of pansies and busy liz...
Post goes online.
This week sees the launch of Post Magazine's new Internet-based service, Post Online. At PM we recog...
Capital consequences.
As the millennium dawns, losses once again loom and corporate capital is showing signs of retreating from the market. Marcus Alcock asks whether now is the right time for private capital to show its worth.
Boost for Baloise.
Baloise, Switzerland's fourth biggest insurer, increased its first half profits by 16% to SFr241.8m ...
Equitas payouts to take 'many years'.
Equitas, the company established by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off the pre-1993 non-life liabilitie...
Pru goes green but stays keen.
Prudential has launched a new ethical fund within its pooled pension fund range. The Light Green ...
Who's speaking?
A former commissioner to the United Nations Compensation Commission and a South African underwriter ...