Regulation
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 ...
Insurers meet in London over Holocaust payments
A meeting of the international panel set up to ensure European insurers honour policies to Holocaust ...
Industry must avoid empty promises.
Relief following the judgment in the guaranteed annuity case will spread far beyond the Equitable Li...
Swiss Re profits up.
Swiss Re has posted good figures for the first half of 1999. Gross premiums increased by 19% compare...
Aware and prepared?
In last year's Post Magazine survey of UK risk managers, many respondents expressed concern about te...
Aon links up with real estate body.
Aon has formed a strategic alliance with an international real estate federation as the official pro...
RSA and Friends' weak life signs.
The life offices of Royal & Sun Alliance and Friends Provident are struggling to stay afloat, accord...
Commentary - An exercise in damage limitation.
In recent years, courts seem to have become less lenient to plaintiffs who have seriously delayed br...
M&G life goes on at Scot Am.
Retail unit trust group M&G is to transfer the administration of its life and pensions business to S...
Comet blazes insurance trail.
I read with interest your Comment (PM 26 August, p8) regarding the replacement of goods contract rec...
Norway's Irish quest.
Storebrand, Norway's largest insurer, has applied to set up a life assurance operation in Ireland. I...
Post wins honour to host congress - PIA 2000.
Post Magazine has been awarded the honour of hosting the 2000 congress of Presse Interenationale des...
Police arrest runaway broker.
Fugitive American broker Martin Frankel was finally arrested this week and was being held in Germany...
Rebuilding after the 'quake.
Insurers and reinsurers are now scrutinising renewals and new risks in Turkey. Richard Radevsky looks at building standards and warns against being over critical.
State of the market.
All the information you'll need to make the right moves.
Good and bad news for Zurich.
Zurich Financial Services has posted mixed results for the first half of 1999. The Zurich-based g...