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7 September 2010

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Marginal rates

27 August 2010

It's a pretty nervy time of year for the market. Will there or won't there be a major hurricane? It seems to me the biggies tend to hit as Monte Carlo approaches. We haven't had much to write about so far, but who really knows?… Read more

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To have and have not

13 August 2010

It's a funny old market, isn't it? Here we are in the middle of 2010 and for most classes it really is as soft as can be… Read more

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Sabre rattling

22 July 2010

Dear Reader, It's all been about brokers lately. In the space of a week, Aon, the world's largest broker, has really gotten tongues wagging with not just one but two thumping announcements by Steve McGill, the chairman and CEO of Aon Risk Services… Read more

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Spoiling the broth

12 July 2010

Looking around the market it seems pretty encouraging, doesn't it? After all, certain Chilean programmes have seen some decent renewals in the wake of the earthquake, according to the brokers… Read more

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No escape

25 June 2010

Dear Reader, A Jewish joke this week:-Yossi and Freda an elderly Jewish couple, are sitting together on an aeroplane flying to the Far East… Read more

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Extreme exposures

14 June 2010

Are they ever going to stop? I thought the claims experience in the first quarter was bad enough given Windstorm Xynthia and the Chilean earthquake - losses which now look like they will easily cost the industry in the region of at least $11bn if we take conservative estimates of an $8bn loss for Chile and a $3bn loss for Xynthia… Read more

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Blood on the tracks

27 May 2010

Dear reader, Bloodbath. Carnage. Massacre. Call it what you will, but one thing is clear, and that is it's not a great time to be underwriting at the moment… Read more

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Fasten your seatbelts

14 May 2010

As April drew to a close the offshore energy market was distinctly nervous, with a number of key accounts in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) coming up for renewal in the run-up to the official start of the US wind season on 1 June… Read more

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Safety concerns

29 April 2010

This really is turning out to be a hell of a year for losses, with the blow out and explosion at the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 people, now looking like it will cost the industry in excess of $1bn… Read more

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Market makers

16 April 2010

If I am allowed a little leeway this month could I possibly draw your attention to our Middle East profile? Aside from the usual perceptive analysis (that's the end of the self publicity, I promise), it provides a useful insight into the real way that a lot of the business gets done in this developing (re)insurance market… Read more

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