Obama to the Rescue; Hartwig on the Banks; Davos Devotees Duck Blame for instigating the current economic mess starts with the banks. Munich Re’s recent webinar gave Dr. Robert P. Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, a chance to …
Insurers Catlin, Beazley, Amlin, Hiscox and Newcomer Torus Find Their Niche in U.S. Market Find a need, then fill it,” is a hoary business principle, but making it work is often harder than it looks. However, a number of British …
For the past 100 years or so the election of a new American President has been more than just a local event. But the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president has taken on a special importance. It …
Several people remarked that the presentation of the Global Risk Network’s analysis of the biggest risks facing the world in 2009 was unusually well attended – a sign perhaps that in the current economic crisis the word and the meaning …
For the moment the economic recession is driving the global stagecoach, while climate change is riding shotgun, but it’s not as bad as it could be. Reports from Europe point to the fact that the P/C industry’s exposure to the …
Insurers Can Weather Global Financial Crisis Buyers that aren’t buying; houses that aren’t selling, banks that aren’t lending — sound familiar? But in this case it’s the United Kingdom that we’re talking about, not the United States. However, one thing …
Insurers Increasingly Concerned Over Growing Threat of Attacks Yo, ho, ho and a tanker of oil – Pirates of the Caribbean they’re not. Today’s descendants of the marauders of the Spanish Main operate from “mother ships” in fast, well-equipped and …
For the first time in 90 years no surviving French soldier from the First World War participated in today’s memorial services. The last “Poilus,” as soldiers who fought in the war are known in France, died in April. Only five …
Execs Say Market Remains Attractive Even as Crisis Puts Pressure on Prices The by now all too familiar litany of the world’s financial woes took pride of place at A.M. Best’s conference in London on Oct. 15. Roger Sellek, the …
ING picks up a $13 billion cash injection; Climate change for fund managers They aren’t the Apple kind of iPod’s; they’re 18 to 34 year old Brits, who are “Insecure, Pressurized, Over-taxed and Debt-ridden” — i.e. “IPODs,’ according to a …
