Features – Page 7
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What role for government?
Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), answers some questions from Catastrophe Risk Management about the US market, including proposals for more government involvemen
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From model output to price
Sophisticated methodologies and processes to price catastrophe risk are paramount if reinsurance is to remain a reliable and stable form of capital for clients underwriting in catastrophe exposed area
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A Model of Tenacity
A little over 20 years ago, a young woman, metaphorically clutching her new masters degrees in economics and business administration, went to work in Boston for the US subsidiary of one of Britain's l
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Financial Management of Large Scale Catastrophes
The OECD has launched an international network that will gather high level public officials, representatives of the private sector and academic experts with a view to exchanging information and provid
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Managing Uncertainty in Cat Models
Difficult questions raised by the 2005 hurricane season on the merits of the various types of analyses that underpinned trading decisions continue to worry senior management.
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Reviewing Model Changes
Commercial catastrophe model vendors have made key changes this year to their US hurricane and European windstorm models. Especially for US hurricane, the effect on modelled loss is material.
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Holding the Beauty Parade
They may all look good - but how do you choose the broker for you? Stewart McCulloch gives some tips.
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Corporate disclosure and Eastern Europe
James Hydzik looks at some of the potential pitfalls for companies investing in Eastern Europe and discusses how problems are being overcome.
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CONTROL & FLEXIBILITY
Despite reports that the insurance market is still softening, interest in maintaining existing captives and even starting new ones continues Alastair Paterson and Scott Gemmell explain why companies h
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IS THE TIDE TURNING?
The law relating to contracts of insurance is complex and does not always favour the policyholder But proposed reforms could change this, say Jane Harte-Lovelace and Sarah Turpin.
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A MARKET UNDER PRESSURE
Peter Allen discusses the results of a quantitative survey of risk managers on how well the insurance market is meeting their needs
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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR POLICYHOLDERS?
Jane Harte-Lovelace and Sarah Turpin suggest that insurance market moves to introduce contract certainty mean that policyholders will have to be active in ensuring their needs are met
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Out of Brussels
Employers are bracing themselves for the implementation of what everyone reckons is the most significant piece of European legislation of all - the age discrimination strand of the European Employment
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Communicate to mitigate
Jean-Paul Louisot explains the need to communicate widely about the nature of risks and risk management
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Who do they work for?
Chris Lajtha discusses brokers' lack of progress in developing a new business model and asks what has happened to the notion of agency
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Risk and communication
StrategicRISK talks to AMRAE's Alain Poullet about January's conference, 'Les Rencontres'
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Making the cycle work for you
'What you cannot avoid, welcome', says a Chinese proverb Stewart Lovett explains how an effective risk retention programme can make the insurance market cycle work for your business.
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RISK MANAGEMENT AT THE HEART OF THE ENTERPRISE
Bruce Carnegie-Brown looks at a recent US study
