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A gentle reminder…
20 May 2013
He may be an American citizen, but Tom Bolt has certainly mastered the ancient British art of understatement… Read more
Nickel and dime reinsurers
13 May 2013
Set-piece conferences may lack the adrenaline rush and excitement of our everyday job of gathering and publishing exclusive news, but they force us to impose structure and logical order on recent events and put them into context and perspective… Read more
All gain and no pain?
8 May 2013
Perhaps the greatest defining characteristic of each generation is that when it reaches a certain age it starts to believe that the generation below has it far too easy… Read more
Why did they do it?
29 April 2013
As journalists we spend most of our working days finding answers to the principal questions of what? Who? When? And how much?… Read more
Making a virtue of austerity?
22 April 2013
Sometimes it's hard not to feel a little sorry for reinsurers and specialty underwriters. So much of what determines their fortunes is out of their control… Read more
Reflections from Baroness Thatcher’s funeral 17.04.13
17 April 2013
On the day of former UK Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher's funeral in Central London, Lloyd's and London market veteran Michael Wade makes the following special guest post for The Insurance Insider after returning from the ceremony… Read more
Evolution not revolution
15 April 2013
The reputation of management consultants is not one of unalloyed success in the (re)insurance markets… Read more
Hot or not, capital is still capital
10 April 2013
The polemic swirling around the potentially disruptive influence of new capital, which is arriving in the reinsurance sector via inflows into ILS funds, has been building steadily since last summer, but the tone of the debate has become noticeably more strident and shrill in recent weeks… Read more
It’s a people business, stupid
2 April 2013
"Notwithstanding the very successful efforts of the two or three major global brokers, the fact remains that there will always be opportunities for good operatives to either defect and set up on their own or move to a smaller company that needs development cash to cope with such an arrival."… Read more
Financial repression
25 March 2013
You don't need to be a depositor in a Cypriot bank to know that we are living in an age of major market distortions… Read more
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