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Steering Clear of the Cedent Insolvency ‘Fatberg’
I started working in the London reinsurance market in 1978. Forty years' later, after a journey through various roles to running my own business today, I've seen many insurers and reinsurers come and ...
Newhouse’s Leadership Lessons
Britt Newhouse, former chairman of Guy Carpenter, discussed some lessons in leadership from his career and his parents. He often recalls things his mother and father told him—truisms for both life ...
Former Guy Carpenter Chairman Newhouse Discusses His Career Changing Events
Everybody has career-changing events and life-changing events—and sometimes, as with the case of Britt Newhouse, events from those two worlds collide. Newhouse, the former chairman of reinsurance ...
Insurers Increasingly Seek Legacy Transfers to Shed Long-Tail Liabilities
Several recent reserve cover deals—including the single-largest reinsurance transaction on record—demonstrate a growing interest on the part of insurers to shed their long-tail liabilities. A ...
Extraordinary Re’s Extraordinary Idea
Imagine there's a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more. A new and unique reinsurer, Extraordinary Re, has hit upon the novel ...Liquid Gold
One of Extraordinary Re's many innovations is a patented technology process that transforms each reinsurance contract assumed on its trading platform into what are called "liquid insurance ...
Reinsurance a Train Wreck; Brokers and Carriers Need to Bring Value Together, Berkley Says
W. Robert Berkley, Jr., the CEO of W.R. Berkley Corp., is not one to mince words about perceived missteps in the property/casualty insurance industry. A recent assessment of the P/C reinsurance ...
Catastrophe Bonds A to Z
A reader of this publication, the president of an insurance agency, recently wrote to say he kept hearing about catastrophe bonds but had little knowledge of what they were. He was curious if these ...