Risk, Re-/Insurance and Future Thinking
From the monthly archives:
There’s an interesting piece in the Royal Gazette from 22 December in which the authors comment on a recent report by Stifel Nicolaus into the comparative states of the Lloyd’s/London and Bermudian markets. The rather damning conclusion is that while Bermuda is swilling in cash, there’s rather a drought in the savvy stakes - “long on [...]
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As ever, Swiss Re’s sigma team produce interesting reading. They do an annual review of how the year has gone in different sectors, and this year’s on the international property field [no direct link, but click on the first of the 'News Releases'] is worth a read. It’s been a very mild year for insurers [...]
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Edward Kelley, assistant general Counsel for Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. (TRC), has an interesting article on law.com about how TRC has changed its email technology and practices so as to make the whole thing more streamlined, cost-effective and productive. The problem they faced in particular was dealing with endless enquiries from regulators: Each time a regulator [...]
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Great word, that - “cyclicality”. You can sort of see what it means, though I still have strong doubts as to whether it really exists outside the rareified and jargon-filled world of the capital markets. Anyway, what it seems to mean to Lloyd’s and the Economist Intelligence Unit is “characteristic of the cyclical [...]
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Here’s a small and possibly useful tip. As we all know by know, Word/Excel etc save a lot of metadata about you when you draft a document, and sometimes you don’t want to pass that m/d on. The safest and easiest thing is to save the document (via the excellent PDF Factory) as a pdf [...]
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Jotting these down for my own sake, they may be useful for others. Two things I learned in Paris on the short trip I’ve just taken: Taxis In theory, you can’t flag down taxis in the street in Paris, but are supposed to wait and catch them at designated taxi stands, which are usually (a) pretty [...]
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There’s a wonderful series of maps at WorldMapper - “The world as you’ve never seen it before” - showing graphically distorted maps of the world according to different socio-economic indicators. It’s especially good as they do pairs of maps. The first one here shows global activity in exports of financial and insurance services: [...]
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