BERMUDA REINSURANCE -November 2008

Benchmarking the major Bermuda reinsurers
Bermuda Re/insurance and Standard & Poor’s
As the January renewal season gets into full swing, Standard & Poor’s provides benchmarking data and Bermuda Re/insurance analyses what it means.
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CEO Survey: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Bermuda Re/insurance
Enterprise risk management comes under the spotlight as senior Bermuda re/insurance executives report their views.
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In Conversation: Jim Bryce
Roger Crombie
The most outspoken leader in the Bermuda re/insurance market foresees consolidation and a raising of the minimum capital level for re/insurance companies.
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Strategic asset allocation for insurance companies
Yevgenia Zemlyakova
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Yevgenia Zemlyakova explains how a diversified investment strategy can help insurance companies enhance their investment returns while managing risk.
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The state of the market
Roger Crombie
As the world faces the worst economic storm in living memory, the counter-cyclical re/insurance sector is moving towards a hard market. Not all are affected equally, Roger Crombie argues.
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A model approach to risk
Richard Clinton
EQECAT, Inc.
Richard Clinton asks what the insurance industry can learn from the current financial crisis and whether it will impact the insurance-linked securities market.
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Still confused?
Susannah J. Wakefield
Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki
Susannah J. Wakefield provides a step-by-step explanation of how the sub-prime crisis has affected and continues to affect re/insurers.
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Mutual recognition and the impact of sub-prime
Matthew Elderfield
Bermuda Monetary Authority
Matthew Elderfield explains how the BMA’s regulation regime and vigilance have helped it to minimise the impact of the sub-prime crisis in Bermuda.
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The villains of the piece
Roger Crombie
Who’s to blame for the economic crisis enveloping financial markets this autumn? Roger Crombie thinks he knows.
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