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Mark Geoghegan

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  • After Hurricane Sandy an analyst friend shared with us a crude and unscientific rule-of-thumb methodology for working out which reinsurers and specialty players were most likely to be affected by the loss.
  • The dramatic events of the past 12 months have caused an awful lot of angst-ridden debate in the reinsurance community. Reinsurance is on trial. Making the case for the prosecution is our learned friend Mr Adam McNestrie and for the defence the venerable Mr Mark Geoghegan.
  • At this time of year all non-reinsurance staff in our industry collectively wonder how on earth the treaty crowd manage to get away with pretending that a late summer visit to the Côte d'Azur is somehow work.
  • The global (re)insurance industry must have been very bad in a previous life, for the amount of other people's suffering we have had to endure since the global financial crisis began has been enormous.
  • Imagine this for a second. A fire in a chemicals warehouse culminates in a series of devastating explosions in the port and industrial heart of a major city.
  • If ever there were a good year to ask for a sabbatical, 2016 looks like being it.