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Insurance
Rising interest rates won’t, on their own, improve reinsurers’ operational earnings, and that they will is a common myth that needs to be dispelled—or at least better understood—by the industry, Stuart Shipperlee, head of analysis at Litmus Analysis, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Parametric cat bonds can help the countries of South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as Turkey (ECIS) close the protection gap associated with natural catastrophe risk, Kirill Savrassov, chief executive officer of Phoenix CRetro, a niche Bermudian ILS specialist, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Disruptive Capital Investments, a £250 million fund controlled and managed by City financier Edi Truell, has acquired a majority stake in REG (UK), an online counterparty risk management platform for the UK general insurance market. 27 April 2017
Insurance
Broker Willis Towers Watson has appointed John Campbell as corporate risk and broking (CRB) market leader and construction leader for St. Louis. 4 August 2017
Reinsurance
Russia is an economy on the up, and one of the most obvious indications of that success is the construction of complex skyscrapers. A panel of insurance experts discussed the challenges of providing insurance cover to such projects. 1 October 2012
Awards
Global legal powerhouse Clyde & Co was recognised as the top law firm by respondents, achieving a 6.59 score in our survey, closely followed by Holman Fenwick & Willan at 6.43. 14 September 2014
Insurance
Lloyd’s of London will start its India operations in Mumbai by early 2017. 10 June 2016
Insurance
Most US cedants increasingly see using collateralised capacity as a mainstream option complementing their traditional reinsurance programmes—but education is still needed to help demystify the process for some carriers. 17 October 2017
Insurance
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Programme, and global insurers, has welcomed announcements by the development ministries of the UK and Germany to dedicate support to narrow the disaster protection gap for communities in the poorest countries. 21 July 2017
Awards
This year’s best asset manager, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), received a score of 6.24, followed by JP Morgan Asset Management with 6.19 and Black Rock with 6.14. 14 September 2014
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