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Bermuda Re/insurance . November 2008
Contents
Benchmarking the major Bermuda reinsurers 6
As the January renewal season gets into full swing,
Bermuda Re/insurance and Standard & Poor’s Standard & Poor’s provides benchmarking data and
Bermuda Re/insurance analyses what it means.
CEO Survey: 18
Enterprise risk management comes under the spotlight as
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
senior Bermuda re/insurance executives report their views.
Bermuda Re/insurance
In Conversation: Jim Bryce 24
The most outspoken leader in the Bermuda re/insurance
Roger Crombie market foresees consolidation and a raising of the minimum
capital level for re/insurance companies.
Strategic asset allocation for insurance companies 28
Yevgenia Zemlyakova explains how a diversified investment
Yevgenia Zemlyakova strategy can help insurance companies enhance their
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
investment returns while managing risk.
The state of the market 32
As the world faces the worst economic storm in living
Roger Crombie memory, the counter-cyclical re/insurance sector is moving
towards a hard market. Not all are affected equally, Roger
Crombie argues.
A model approach to risk 36
Richard Clinton asks what the insurance industry can learn
Richard Clinton from the current financial crisis and whether it will impact the
EQECAT, Inc.
insurance-linked securities market.
Still confused? 40
Susannah J. Wakefield provides a step-by-step explanation of
Susannah J. Wakefield how the sub-prime crisis has affected and continues to affect
Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki
re/insurers.
Mutual recognition and the impact of sub-prime 44
Matthew Elderfield explains how the BMA’s regulation
Matthew Elderfield regime and vigilance have helped it to minimise the impact
Bermuda Monetary Authority
of the sub-prime crisis in Bermuda.
The villains of the piece 48
Who’s to blame for the economic crisis enveloping financial
Roger Crombie markets this autumn? Roger Crombie thinks he knows.
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