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• Trading on disaster: Two new cat bonds come to market

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 664
  Filed under: International markets , Good news The catastrophe bond market is still running strong. This alternative to reinsurance, in which insurers can package up their risk and sell it to investors, may be a small part of the market, but carriers are clearly committing to it . Swiss Re ( SWCEY ) and Scor ( ...
  2 days ago

• Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know about the Senate Health Bill

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 438
  This is from Kaiser Health News : Employers would be required to provide an unpaid “reasonable break time for nursing mothers” in the first year after giving birth. $400 million is allocated “to help teens make the transition to adulthood.” A temporary “reinsurance” program under which the government ...
  2 days ago

• Elementum Advisors launched as ILS & catastrophe risk focused investment manager

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 131
  A new investment manager has entered the sector with a promised focus on insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and collateralised reinsurance investment opportunities. The new company called Elementum Advisors is to be based in Chicago and is owned (following what seems to be a management buy out) by well ...
  3 days ago

• Insurers, banks among systemic risk Swiss companies

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 554
  Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Some of Switzerland’s banks and insurance companies, all multinationals, could well be among those identified by the Basel-based Financial Stability Board as companies that need more regulation because of inherent risks. But the FSB denies Tuesday 1 December, that a Monday ...
  4 days ago

• Accounting Standard for Contingencies [An Overview]

  
  Accounting-financial-tax.com offers bookkeeping journal entry basic accounting financial accounting management accounting tax accounting cash management accounting cost accounting financial ratio budget forecasting — Authority: 129
  I’ve listed almost all types of current liabilities on my previous post [All Types of Items shown as Current Liabilities]. Contingencies are part of current liabilities, but since it is a broad and controversy topic, I decide to emphasize contingencies discussion separately in this post. I am going to talk about it ...
  5 days ago

• Insurers to benefit from low catastrophe losses in 2009

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 664
  Filed under: Allstate Corp (ALL) , Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV) Mother Nature and mankind took it easy on the insurance industry in 2009. The total cost of both natural and man-made catastrophes fell profoundly in 2009 , from $267 billion to $52 billion. Insured losses fell, as well, according to Swiss Re ...
  5 days ago

• Aspen Insurance has urge to merge, sets sights on Ariel

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 664
  Filed under: International markets , Deals , Industry , Competitive strategy Two big reinsurers in Bermuda could be getting ready to tie the knot. Aspen Insurance Holdings ( AHL ) is said to be close to buying Ariel, which would be a multi-billion dollar merger. According to Reinsurance magazine, the ...
  1 week ago

• Climate change having visible impact on natural catastrophe losses

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 131
  Munich Re has issued a press release saying that climate change is one of the biggest challenges faced by mankind. If we don’t They say that there is clear evidence that climate change is a contributing factor to increasing natural catastrophe losses and that ambitious targets are needed from the Copenhagen climate ...
  1 week ago

• Affordable Health Insurance Options in Ohio: An Interview With Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  According to the United States Census Bureau, 87.7 percent of Ohioans had some form of health insurance coverage during 2005, while 12.3 percent were not insured at any time during the year. Additionally, 14 percent of Ohio residents under the age of sixty-five did not have health insurance during 2005. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arch Reinsurance Promotes Tim Olson, John Rathgeber and Dale Vincent

  
  Capital IQ Power Moves — Authority: 148
  Arch Reinsurance announced that Tim Olson was promoted to the position of president and chief executive officer of Arch Reinsurance. The company also announced that John Rathgeber , who had been serving as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, has been promoted to the newly-created role of vice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Munich Re cheers the return of the insurance-linked securities market

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 131
  Munich Re have published a new article on their website saluting the new found health of the insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond market. The article ‘ Insurance-linked securities – the market celebrates its comeback ‘ discusses the problems the market faced in 2008, the comeback of the market, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• GIC establishing catastrophe pool for Africa and Asia

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 131
  General Insurance Corporation (the Indian state owned insurance and reinsurance company) is working to establish a natural catastrophe pool for insurers and reinsurers in Africa and Asia. A top official at the company has been quuoted in the Deccan Herald saying that GIC have been entrusted by the Federation of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lets connect the damages verdict in Bossier to reinsurance, securitization via cat bonds and global finance

  
  slabbed — Authority: 477
  I sometimes pinch myself someone as financially sophisticated as Mr CLS posts with us on Yahoo Allstate. Before I get to his post there is one concept that must be understood in reinsurance. Under traditional reinsurance the ceding party (such as State Farm) gets to take a credit on their balance sheets for the risk ...
  3 weeks ago

• Isabel Hancock joins V Australia as Regional Commercial Manager, Southern Africa

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 483
  V Australia, Sir Richard Branson’s new boutique long-haul airline, is pleased to announce the appointment of Isabel Hancock as its Regional Commercial Manager, Southern Africa.Ms Hancock joins V... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
  3 weeks ago

• Why Snoring Is A Life Insurance Issue!

  
  Ed Hinerman On Life Insurance — Authority: 123
  Of course the reason snoring is a life insurance underwriting issue is because someone may put a pillow over your head and hold it there until the noise stops. Seriously though, if that snoring is driven by sleep apnea, depending on the company you may get a brief review of your sleep studies and their best rate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stability Returns

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 131
  Henry Keeling, President and CEO — International OperationsContactAt the end of 2008, the normal pre-renewal uncertainty was magnified by the effects of the most severe financial crisis in... Continue reading...
  3 weeks ago

• REUTERS: Berkshire reinsurance volume limited by Burlington

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 486
  * Berkshire to preserve insurance resources * Follows earlier cutbacks in volume * Pricing power not strong enough (Adds information on competitors, paragraphs 7-8) By Lilla Zuill and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway Inc ( BRKa.N ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2009 Reinsurance Readers’ Awards

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 131
  Your vote counts. Click here to participate in the 2009 Reinsurance magazine Readers’ Awards survey.Click here to begin the survey >> Continue reading...
  4 weeks ago

• Reinsurance Claims Technician - 12 Month

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
    Reinsurance Claims Technician Location: Dublin City Centre [ Dublin ] Type: Contract Salary: Negotiable - Benefits : 27 days hols, Corporate Plan Level 2 (Plan B + Options + Dental Care) + taxsaver travel + DC Pension 5% & 5% An international reinsurer providing insurance (life and non-life), ...
  4 weeks ago

• Financial Risks of Climate Change report released

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 131
  The Association of British Insurers report which they commissioned to look into climate change, the financial risks associated with it and how the insurance industry will cope has now been published. The report was produced by AIR Worldwide and the UK Met Office . As mentioned when I wrote about this a few days ...
  4 weeks ago

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