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Opinion

  • It's not every day that I brush my teeth while listening to the premier of Bermuda getting a grilling from a hostile BBC journalist
  • There will be significant volumes of ILS capital trapped at year-end, particularly in the retro segment, but out of this challenge the reinsurance market is looking for opportunities to spin out new products
  • Next year can't come soon enough for AIG's careworn investors after recently installed CEO Brian Duperreault last night declared 2018 the "Year of the Underwriter"
  • I think we have all gotten used to hearing coherent accounts of the structural issues facing the London market over the last couple of years
  • The collapse this week of Shenzhen Qianhai Financial Holdings and Shenzhen Investment Holdings' $1bn takeover of Asia Capital Re shows that even the de facto backing of the world's second-richest nation state isn't necessarily enough to get outbound Chinese M&A over the line
  • Contrary to the popular mythology that journalists are fuelled by an almost exclusive diet of hard liquor, we scribes actually function on a steady stream of tea and coffee.
  • Make no mistake about it, at times like these, the modelling and ratings agencies are the de facto regulators of the marketplace.
  • Anyone who spends time on LinkedIn will be more than familiar with the eye-catching headlines written by the marketing departments of large recruitment or consultancy firms.
  • Imagine that on your way home the urge suddenly takes you to gamble. You walk straight into a betting shop and place the biggest bet you can afford on a horse race.
  • Let me take a wild guess - I bet you're glad it's not Q3 2017 anymore.
  • Sometimes I think the reinsurance market is like an old prize fighter reduced to being an attraction at a travelling fair.
  • It seems paradoxical that I should be writing to tell you of the demise of our monthly print edition.