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Company Example A

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Company type

Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) and Investment Managers

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Founded
1896

Major offices

Zurich, CH (headquarters)
Nassau, BS

Officers

Smedley MacGuffin (CEO)

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  • If ever there were a good year to ask for a sabbatical, 2016 looks like being it.
  • One of our biggest gripes in the insurance sector is that it is very hard to differentiate our offering in the marketplace. We moan that we are all tarred with the same (almost universally negative) brush.
  • There's nowt so queer as folk. That no-nonsense northern English saying was made for a people business like our industry.
  • In our reporting of this late-stage global soft cycle we have understandably tended to focus on the big carriers and the headline-grabbing strategic choices they are currently being forced to make, but what of the brokers?
  • What Spain doesn't know about overcapacity isn't worth knowing.
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  • Life used to be so simple. You would choose your class or classes of business, go out and hire the best underwriter(s) you could afford, back them with the best quality capital you could find, set them down in the most appropriate platform and then let them get on with it.
  • Have we finally reached the point where everyone stops worrying about the impact of ILS's cheaper forms of capital on the market?
  • We definitely get it. You are a global P&C insurer of high standing with a deserved reputation for outperformance, built over decades.
  • One of the great perversities of capitalism is that the highest prizes are often handed out to those willing to take on the greatest amount of risk