International
The Current Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Hurricanes—It May Surprise You
While "scientific consensus" on climate change may sound like an oxymoron, there is consensus on three key questions about climate change and hurricanes, as demonstrated by recent reports from the ...
What Consumer Credit Data Reveals About Auto Insurance Shoppers
Customers with lower credit-based insurance scores shop most frequently while consumers with the highest insurance scores are less likely than the general population to shop for new auto insurance. ...
Swiss Re Chief Economist: First Fed Rate Hike Will Be In 2015 or Later
After Wednesday's decision by the Federal Reserve to maintain the target Fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points, Swiss Re's Chief Economist, Kurt Karl, said that with economic growth this year ...
21 Insurers, Brokers Launch Oasis ‘Open Source’ Cat Model
The Oasis Loss Modelling Framework has unveiled what it describes as "the most significant development in the modelling of natural catastrophe losses for 20 years"—the launch of an independent, ...
Reinsurance at Crossroads Part 2: Emerging Markets and Risks; the Road Ahead
As detailed in Part 1, "The Market in the Developed Economies" the reinsurance industry faces the task of partially reinventing itself to expand in those sectors where it can achieve growth. Property ...
Lifting of Sanctions Brings Uncertainty Over Iranian Oil Tanker Insurance
Insurance for tankers to export Iranian crude may be unusable even after the U.S. and the European Union eased sanctions against the Persian Gulf state, a group covering vessel owners said. Ship ...
German Companies Told No Exceptions to Board Gender Quotas
German listed companies will be granted no exceptions to a 30 percent women's quota for supervisory boards by 2016, said Manuela Schwesig, the minister responsible for drafting the legislation. ...
Emerging Markets Remain Vulnerable to Contagion
Emerging markets may be unrecognizable from the small and fragile economies that fell like dominoes 15 years ago, but they are just as vulnerable today to the same sort of indiscriminate selling when ...