All Features articles – Page 65
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Why choose multiple choice?
Tick-box assessment through multiple choice questions receives a fair share of criticism, but the system is here to stay. Waltham Pitglow explains why
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How was your retro knowledge?
Providing suitable questions to given answers was the retroactive exercise posed last week. Robin Wood supplies some ideas
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Quanta to start £80m syndicate
Insurer to launch professional risks syndicate managed by Chaucer
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Why is insurance so slow to use technology?
Electronic trading works effectively in the stock market so it is just the insurance 'turkeys' who are holding the industry back, says David York
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Travellers show expertise
Buyers of travel insurance are taking greater care over how they buy cover. Andy Akerman explains
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The e-challenge
E-commerce has started to take off, but insurers are uncertain about the benefits of an industry-wide portal. Alasdair Stewart report
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Loan system to lift central fund
Plan for syndicates to provide rolling loans to boost reserves to £2bn
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Co-mingling could be a new headache for brokers
Insurers will call the shots in FSA's ruling on co-mingling, says Michael Faulkner
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Questioning the answers
A memory recall game can be adapted to individual or team working to assist in identifying risk management weaknesses. Robin Wood explains
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How good were your principles?
Last week we published eight questions to challenge your knowledge of basic insurance principles. We added a prize of a bottle of vintage claret as an incentive. Waltham Pitglow provides the answers and explanations
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Phillip Bell
The image of Misys in the market is lagging behind the truth. So if perception were reality the company would have ceased to exist long ago, according to Misys General Insurance chief executive Phillip Bell. On the company's 25th anniversary he speaks to Jonathan Russell about Misys, the market and ...
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Competent Behaviour
Some personalities in a firm can disrupt the progress of a training and competence programme. Petrina Oxshott explains how to identify and deal with them
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Number Crunch
Time is running out for UK insurance companies as their 2005 results must conform to the new EU financial reporting standards. Andrew Downes warns that companies should be assessing the impact of the regulations now as they compile their 2004 interims
