Reinsurance

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.

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.

No Net benefit.

Benfield Greig's radical, new Internet-based system could transform reinsurance relationships, but the market is not ready for it. Adrian Leonard reports.

Hard times.

Reinsurers have endured huge losses over the last couple of years due to the high number of catastrophes. In the wake of last week's Monte Carlo Rendezvous, Adrian Leonard analyses the future for the reinsurance rating cycle in London.

The mood in Monte.

On the eve of this year's Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, Janina Clark asks reinsurers about the present and future state of their market, and gets some conflicting answers.

£164m in the red.

Australian insurer AMP has slipped into the red by A$398 (£164m) partly due to liabilities incurred ...

Girl power.

Over the last three decades, women have made considerable progress in the struggle against gender prejudice in reinsurance, but Liesl Hattingh finds it remains a tough career path.

Typhoon Olga.

Typhoon Olga - shown as yellow spirals moving over South Korea on 1 August - was tracked from its bi...

Monte Carlo or bust.

After 43 years, the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous is still a 'must' in the reinsurance calendar. Janina Clark looks back at its history.

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