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Online onlyNew Willis network signs up 10 members
Broker gives update on Willis N² after first six months.
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Online onlyAmlin completes French acquisition
Lloyd's insurers' deal for Anglo French Underwriters is approved.
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Online onlyWorking through the recession: recruitment
Insurance consultants outline the state of the jobs market.
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How to have a happy new year
It’s not all bad news. The recession of 2009 will create opportunities for some insurers.
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Capital, but no punishment
The banks needed huge recapitalisation programmes, but insurers aren’t like them.
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Lessons from the financial apocalypse
Never think risk management is done and dusted. You must reassess it regularly.
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Obama and the offshore insurers
He has made lots of noise about closing tax loopholes. Does that mean Bermuda?
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Coming soon: the hard market
Hurricane and investment losses are tipped to push up reinsurance rates.
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FeaturesThis is a job for the experts
Wars and terrorist attacks will never fit traditional frameworks for assessing risk. But that does not mean they can’t be covered. Kai-Uwe Schanz and Doron Zimmermann outline a new intelligence-based model for underwriters.
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NewsFSA bans directors for ‘serious lack of integrity’
Company bosses underwrote policies through two unlawful companies.
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It’s a dog’s life
A big well done to SME Insurance Services, which even in these austere times is finding a few pennies for charity. The company decided to support Guide Dogs for the Blind and hopes to raise £5,000 over the coming year to sponsor a guide-dog puppy through its first year of ...
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BackchatRiches, tea and biscuits
To Spencer House (above), the 18th-century London mansion that was built for an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales. With all that history and wealth sloshing around, it was an appropriate setting for the launch of Chubb’ s ultra high net worth policy. After a whistle-stop tour of the house ...
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FeaturesCash on tap
Insurers hate referral fees and brokers say they and their clients can live without them. But the payments look unlikely to vanish any time soon. Chris Wheal finds out why.
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BackchatAnd the band played on
Not to be a Scrooge but, this year, the Opera in the City Christmas concert seems a little reminiscent of the quote from Titanic: “Music to drown by. Now I know I’m in first class.”Still, the fifth annual event is bound to lift the spirits of those working in the ...
