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Company Example A

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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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  • The second of our newsletters from Baden-Baden for 2014
  • The second of The Insurance Insider's Monte Carlo dailies for 2014
  • The World Reinsurance Forum (WRF) was hastily assembled at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous of 2009. The sector came together with one voice, and that voice has delivered a few very specific messages
  • Singapore is a city built on trade, so it is entirely appropriate that it finds itself as one of the P&C industry's acknowledged global (re)insurance hubs.
  • The old stock market saying that bull markets climb a wall of worry can equally be applied to hard insurance markets
  • Monte Carlo swung round once again and, if anything, it seemed to be busier than ever this year, with standing room only in the Cafe de Paris and the surrounding hotel lobbies for most of the time
  • "The proper role of the government, like the proper role of the advice-book parent, is to set the stage. The stage should give full rein to the creativity of capitalism. But it should also countervail the excesses that occur because of our animal spirits." Not my words, but the key phrases in a famous paper co-authored by two Nobel prize winners
  • There's plenty to talk about in the upstream and downstream energy markets and the power sector, as offshore wells continue to leak or suffer blowouts, onshore pipelines likewise leak or are sabotaged, while jackup rigs capsize with alarming regularity
  • Risk carriers are dreadful pessimists, with a tendency to look for the cloud attached to every silver lining. Historically, this tendency has been a helpful defence mechanism
  • With so much background noise and potentially conflicting information being put out at this important time in the reinsurance calendar, we at thought that it would be a valuable exercise to compile the key ‘takeaways' for the 1 January 2013 renewals season