Latest Emerging Risks Headlines
All the headlines from our Emerging Risks Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Emerging Risks
Feb 5 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as those tasks are when examining well-known...
Sovereign Changing Ownership Structure; XL to Exit Joint Venture
Jan 23 2006 // Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd., a joint venture between ACE Bermuda Insurance Ltd. and XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd., reported that effective Feb. 1, 2006, it is intended that the company will become wholly owned by ACE and...
Lloyd’s Report Says Global Businesses Fail to Identify, Manage Emerging Risks
Oct 5 2005 // Despite spending more time on risk management, board directors at global businesses are failing to identify and manage emerging risks effectively, according to a new research report published by...
JLT Forms U.S. Unit for Emerging Market Risks
May 30 2005 // The Houston office of international insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson LLC announced that it has created a new division to meet the needs of U.S.-domiciled clients engaged in business in the world’s emerging...
Zurich Provides Political Risk Insurance for Bolivian Silver and Tin Mining Project
Apr 12 2005 // Zurich’s U.S.-based unit will provide political risk insurance for construction and operation of a modern silver and tin mining operation in Bolivia. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is co-insuring...
Emerging Risk Symposium to Focus on Global Warming
Feb 4 2005 // The Insurance Leadership Institute, a study group sponsored by GE Insurance Solutions, announced that the conference, to be held February 23, will analyze the effects of hurricanes and global warming on the Insurance...
Emerging Risk Evaluation Critical to Urban Insurers
Oct 21 2004 // Insurers doing business in urban areas should adopt a loss prevention program that looks at emerging risks and new risk management techniques, recommends the Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners Institute, an urban and...
Emerging Markets Executives Share Success Strategies
Oct 3 2004 // While emerging markets are gaining national attention as the new frontier of financial services marketing, they pose special challenges to corporate managers, according to the Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI), a...
NAMIC Cites UIPI Emerging Markets Opportunity Study
Sep 20 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has released new data compiled by the Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI), which shows that urban and emerging markets offer tremendous opportunity for...
UIPI Conference in Chicago to Explore Risks and Rewards Urban Markets
Sep 20 2004 // New data shows urban and emerging markets offer tremendous opportunity for insurers, but the industry-backed Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI) says that insurers may not fully understand how to manage the market...
Zurich’s Emerging Markets Unit Adds Marketing Manager in Hong Kong
Aug 27 2004 // Zurich announced that Susan Yee has joined its business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as marketing manager in Hong Kong. She will be responsible for marketing and underwriting...
Tower Group: North American Insurers See Growth in Emerging Markets for Asia, Europe and Latin America
Aug 3 2004 // North American insurers currently are pursuing global expansion at a pace rivaling that of European insurers’ entry into U.S. markets in the early 1990s. According to TowerGroup, more favorable economics, key...
Zurich Appoints Political Risk Underwriter for Washington
Jul 8 2004 // James Brache has joined the Zurich business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as an underwriter. A provider of political risk and medium-term trade credit insurance, Zurich develops...
Zurich Voted ‘Best Private Insurer’ by Readers of Trade Finance for Third Straight Year
Jun 30 2004 // Zurich North American announced from its Illinois headquarters that its political risk unit, which provides insurance solutions for emerging markets, has been voted “Best Private Insurer” by the readers of...
Zurich Signs Agreement with China’s Sinosure
Apr 21 2004 // Zurich’s Emerging Markets Solutions group, the company’s political risk and trade credit insurance unit, announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Export & Credit Insurance...
Sovereign Risk Posts Strong Financial Results
Aug 26 2003 // Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd., a joint venture between subsidiaries of XL Capital Ltd. and ACE Limited, that writes political risk policies in emerging markets, announced that its sixth year of operation had been quite...
George Bolton Named as Zurich’s First London Trade Credit Underwriter
Aug 26 2003 // Zurich North America and Zurich London announced that George Bolton has joined the London office as their first trade credit insurance underwriter in that location. He has transferred from Zurich’s Washington, D.C....
IFC and Zurich Emerging Markets Solutions Establish Risk Sharing Facility
Aug 15 2003 // The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and Zurich Emerging Markets Solutions, the political risk and credit insurance unit of Zurich North America, announced that they are...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
