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- A little bit of a mis-communication?
- Why the reinsurance world loves Switzerland
- There's a lot of happy lawyers about
- The FSA is dead, long live the Prudential Regulatory Authority
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- So where now for the UK?
- Another Blog Is Born
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- 12.08.2010: A little bit of a mis-communication?
- 13.07.2010: Why the reinsurance world loves Switzerland
- 05.07.2010: There's a lot of happy lawyers about
- 18.06.2010: The FSA is dead, long live the Prudential Regulatory Authority
- 14.06.2010: Power List mania
- 19.05.2010: Social Media Silos: Five Ways to Break Out
- 07.05.2010: So where now for the UK?
- 29.04.2010: Another Blog Is Born
- 16.04.2010: Another bad day for Goldman Sachs
- 09.04.2010: Time for a little politics
- 31.03.2010: Doom and gloom the Willis way
- 23.03.2010: Roll-up for the Reinsurance rollercoaster
- 12.03.2010: Follow us at the World Insurance Forum
- 11.03.2010: Bermuda, fun in the sun?
- 01.03.2010: The Bermuda Reinsurance Club
- 19.02.2010: Better safe than sorry?
- 15.02.2010: Q: What do Bermuda and Iran have in common?
- 10.02.2010: Buzztacular
- 04.02.2010: Just your normal Wednesday
- 02.02.2010: We need your opinions
- 01.02.2010: A personal view
- 25.01.2010: The sky is falling in...
- 08.01.2010: Some Wild and Whacky Predictions for 2010 - and beyond
- 04.01.2010: Happy new year!
- 15.12.2009: Here come the girls
- 07.12.2009: 2009: Some Good Years and Some Bad Years
- 04.12.2009: The Reinsurance Reader Awards 2009
- 24.11.2009: Tweet tweet
- 18.11.2009: It's weird, it's wonderful, it's Reinsurance
- 12.11.2009: Sunny skies ahead?
- 29.10.2009: Baden-boring?
- 19.10.2009: A new week, the same old gossip
- 12.10.2009: Rethink
- 05.10.2009: The end of the world, apparently...
- 01.10.2009: Spare a thought for the Philippines
- 22.09.2009: Merger madness
- 21.09.2009: What I've learned from 9/11...
- 10.09.2009: Monte Carlo madness
- 30.03.2009: Er......a bit late aren't we?
- 17.03.2009: Stewart vs Cramer: Uncensored
- 16.03.2009: So that's why AIG had to be rescued.....
- 16.03.2009: Reinsurance March Madness Group
- 13.03.2009: Getting ready for the Madness?
- 09.03.2009: Slumdog The Sequel
- 03.03.2009: Koala central!!
- 02.03.2009: THIS is why I hate Mondays
- 16.02.2009: God's guide to the economy
- 28.01.2009: Merrill Lunch?
- 20.01.2009: Happy Barack Obama Day!
- 19.01.2009: Quick caption competition for you....
- 06.01.2009: Third hand smoke?
- 24.12.2008: Happy Christmas!!
- 23.12.2008: Where's the Good News?
- 22.12.2008: Elliot Spitzer - the TV Show?
- 19.12.2008: The 12 Days of Reinsurance
- 11.12.2008: Charity Day: The Aftermath
- 10.12.2008: Dressing in drag?
- 27.11.2008: Happy Thanksgiving
- 20.11.2008: Never been one to take advantage of a bad situation but....
- 18.11.2008: Quack! Quack! Something to impressed about with Aflaaac!
- 17.11.2008: Goodbye, dear friend...
- 04.11.2008: Happy US Election Day!!
- 27.10.2008: Reinsurance.....rock solid
- 16.10.2008: Let me be your casualty?
- 06.10.2008: We are so, so sorry....
- 17.09.2008: One person's point of view on AIG's bailout...
- 16.09.2008: Wow....two hurricanes at once!
- 11.09.2008: The weather is still upon us....
- 02.09.2008: How to check out the hurricanes from the comfort of your desk...
- 01.09.2008: Now Gustav has landed....what's next?
- 29.08.2008: A storm brewing....
- 21.08.2008: He’s back!
- 07.08.2008: Smart or stupid?
- 25.07.2008: The King is dead, long live the king
- 22.07.2008: Hello Dolly
- 18.07.2008: The man with only one arm
- 16.07.2008: Competition - who wears a ring like this?
- 14.07.2008: Don't drive the moped to work
- 11.07.2008: Winning words
- 07.07.2008: Bertha for Bermuda?
- 04.07.2008: Pass the parcel
- 04.07.2008: Happy Fourth of July!
- 02.07.2008: Another summer day at Lloyd's....
- 02.07.2008: Sorry - how much was that again?
- 27.06.2008: Running off with the milkman
- 25.06.2008: Hats off for British bureaucracy
- 20.06.2008: A lot of gossip
- 16.06.2008: The Curse of Reinsurance magazine - II
- 13.06.2008: If you can't spot the naive capacity, leave
- 11.06.2008: Wilma!
- 09.06.2008: Squashed by an elephant
- 06.06.2008: Farewell to the brokers' broker
- 04.06.2008: Super spin
- 02.06.2008: Dust off your Deely boppers
- 29.05.2008: One of the best subprime quotes ever
- 28.05.2008: Setting yourself up for a fall
- 28.05.2008: Reserving cycle found alive!
- 23.05.2008: Sell integrity
- 20.05.2008: Introducing the world capital of moral hazard
- 19.05.2008: Why everyone should have a Hothouse Tuesday
- 16.05.2008: Florida fantasies
- 16.05.2008: Get your blue whale-o-meters out
- 16.05.2008: Irony alert
- 09.05.2008: Reality check for reinsurance groupies
- 02.05.2008: Two years to live
- 01.05.2008: Get your jump suit on
- 25.04.2008: Coach-class survivors
- 18.04.2008: Cold Chills
- 17.04.2008: Bom Dia Brazil!
- 02.04.2008: What a cracking investment
- 01.04.2008: Gobble, gobble, gobble
- 01.04.2008: A bunch of frauds?
- 31.03.2008: Walk the walk
- 28.03.2008: What all top layer junkies should know
- 26.03.2008: Heads I win tails you lose
- 11.03.2008: The political cycle
- 07.03.2008: Aigrain's Fourteen
- 07.03.2008: Whoops!
- 06.03.2008: Hot Diggitty Dam!
- 06.03.2008: Celebrity modelling death match
- 29.02.2008: The curse of Reinsurance Magazine
- 26.02.2008: When the wind blows
- 25.02.2008: Substantially all
- 25.02.2008: A bridge too far?
- 22.02.2008: Tasty morsels on the tide
- 15.02.2008: The grumpy old farmer
- 14.02.2008: Sackcloth and ashes in Rio
- 12.02.2008: Two cents' worth
- 11.02.2008: Round'em up
- 11.02.2008: A Van Gogh, a Monet, a Degas and a Cezanne
- 09.02.2008: The magic eye effect
- 01.02.2008: 114,577 reasons to be fearful
- 25.01.2008: Four for me, one for Buffett
- 18.01.2008: Everyone is for sale, but who's buying?
- 11.01.2008: Warranted no losses
- 04.01.2008: Cold sweat and delirium
- 17.12.2007: Head for the hills!
- 14.12.2007: The market speaks
- 10.12.2007: Underwriters are toast
- 06.12.2007: Victor Kiam Re
- 30.11.2007: Slap me once, get hit by a crowbar
- 23.11.2007: The bear (market) necessities
- 16.11.2007: Dodge a bullet, get hit by a bazooka
- 15.11.2007: Spare a thought for Bangladesh
- 09.11.2007: Old reinsurance proverb say...
- 06.11.2007: Solid, solid, solid as the rock
- 02.11.2007: Do the hokey cokey
- 01.11.2007: Like candy from a baby
- 31.10.2007: Long live the revolution!
- 26.10.2007: So nice that you have to name it twice
- 19.10.2007: Credit where credit's due
- 16.10.2007: Physician heal thy former self
- 12.10.2007: No comprendo
- 08.10.2007: IFC II
- 05.10.2007: Smoking chilli peppers, Batman
- 01.10.2007: Save us from the clones
- 28.09.2007: Phoney war
- 24.09.2007: Your help needed - life settlements
- 21.09.2007: Everyone is wrong
- 17.09.2007: Come on, prick my bubble
- 07.09.2007: The search for Monte sanity
- 04.09.2007: Not just glorified email
- 01.09.2007: Just what is a reinsurer to wear this season?
- 31.08.2007: 2.5 plus 2 is still 4.5
- 24.08.2007: Monte madness
- 21.08.2007: To the cave!
- 17.08.2007: Doing what's right is also good business
- 14.08.2007: A sticky matter of liquidity
- 01.08.2007: Work for the big boys?
- 27.07.2007: Crank the sausage handle
- 20.07.2007: In Lloyd's we trust
- 13.07.2007: Chatham van man
- 06.07.2007: Have yourself a wild soft market party
- 04.07.2007: Take it or leave it
- 02.07.2007: London Bomb II
- 29.06.2007: London bomb
- 25.06.2007: Les liasons pornographiques
- 22.06.2007: Spot the difference
- 22.06.2007: Ta-dah!
- 18.06.2007: Buy for 9 and sell for 3
- 15.06.2007: Don't cry over spilt beer
- 13.06.2007: Texan troubles
- 11.06.2007: Easy come, easy go
- 25.05.2007: Money, Money, Money
- 23.05.2007: Scissors, paper, stone
- 18.05.2007: Read this before you get into bed with a hedge fund
- 15.05.2007: Politicians who 'do something'
- 14.05.2007: Nice work if you can get it
- 10.05.2007: Politicians!
- 04.05.2007: Glory, glory email
- 01.05.2007: A very old market chestnut
- 27.04.2007: The Switzerland of Europe
- 25.04.2007: The kings of R/I TBA
- 20.04.2007: Take the tea-bag test
- 05.04.2007: No more Integro jokes
- 04.04.2007: Dynamic duo?
- 30.03.2007: Fancy a quick one?
- 26.03.2007: False economies
- 23.03.2007: Nip, tuck
- 19.03.2007: Robert de Niro says thank heavens for analysts!
- 16.03.2007: Raging Bull
- 12.03.2007: Brokers who come with IOUs under their arms
- 09.03.2007: The man with the golden slip case
- 05.03.2007: The Forrest Gump of reinsurance
- 02.03.2007: Just like 2005 all over again
- 01.03.2007: Why trust one market and not another?
- 26.02.2007: More soft market stuff
- 23.02.2007: WOW - a little sting in the tail
- 23.02.2007: Sidewalk analysis
- 19.02.2007: On the plane to Zurich
- 16.02.2007: Great Minds think alike III
- 09.02.2007: Andrea, Barry, Chantal, welcome to the party
- 06.02.2007: Spot the deliberate mistake
- 02.02.2007: Madman solves Florida problem in 3 minutes
- 01.02.2007: Pyongyang, Fla
- 26.01.2007: I'm not playing any more!
- 24.01.2007: Hurray for composite pricing
- 19.01.2007: Top-slicing
- 17.01.2007: What does Chilly think of today's market?
- 16.01.2007: Weatherproof? Why?
- 12.01.2007: Game on
- 10.01.2007: More depressing reading means more opportunity
- 08.01.2007: Soft market stuff
- 05.01.2007: They won't call it a soft market
- 20.12.2006: Happy Renewals - see you in 2007
- 15.12.2006: Great minds think alike II
- 14.12.2006: Great minds think alike
- 13.12.2006: Required reading for all Cat writers
- 13.12.2006: Low-hanging fruit
- 11.12.2006: 'Tis the season NOT to be jolly
- 08.12.2006: One plus one equals sticky renewals
- 07.12.2006: What's the point of long-range forecasts?
- 04.12.2006: Is it you doing all this North Korean business?
- 01.12.2006: Want the big choc on Christmas Eve?
- 29.11.2006: Molly Malone?
- 27.11.2006: Project Christmas present
- 23.11.2006: Stop litigating and start mediating
- 22.11.2006: Happy-hour fines
- 20.11.2006: One question about this Scottish Re business
- 17.11.2006: Are you diverse or perverse?
- 14.11.2006: Goodbye Dessie!
- 10.11.2006: Toddlers on chairs
- 07.11.2006: The greatest failure of our times
- 03.11.2006: Time to sell?
- 27.10.2006: The Reinsurance time machine
- 20.10.2006: Fancy a change of career?
- 13.10.2006: You just can't help some people
- 03.10.2006: Make sure you're near the door
- 29.09.2006: The squeeze is on
- 22.09.2006: The billion-dollar boat
- 15.09.2006: Stockholm syndrome
- 12.09.2006: Groundhog day
- 08.09.2006: Why winners win and losers lose
- 25.08.2006: Men, not machines
- 18.08.2006: Everything and Anything Re
- 11.08.2006: The perfect market
- 14.07.2006: Soggy toast
- 07.07.2006: Flea-sized markets get prices wrong
- 01.07.2006: Before you get into a sidecar, make sure you know who's driving
- 30.06.2006: Cuthbert Heath lives!
- 23.06.2006: 6 reasons why you need to be an optimist
- 16.06.2006: Reinsurance and rag dolls
- 09.06.2006: Why a fine English summer is good for your finances
- 26.05.2006: Never forget - insurance is just finance
- 19.05.2006: Great minds think alike
- 12.05.2006: The underwriter with no brain
- 05.05.2006: Why did they bother?
- 28.04.2006: Class of 2006 anyone?
- 04.04.2006: Life on the A- precipice
- 31.03.2006: You must read this article now
- 10.03.2006: Surprise, surprise, shareholders don't like losses
- 10.03.2006: If I don't value my product, why should you?
- 03.03.2006: Luck does play a part in underwriting
- 17.02.2006: Six steps to ruin
- 10.02.2006: Oh what a soft and bouncy market!
- 03.02.2006: The $615m question
- 27.01.2006: Four questions for the class of 2005
- 20.01.2006: Didn't they see the weather forecast?
- 13.01.2006: For some people it is Friday 13th every day
- 06.01.2006: No fillings for Marcos!
- 16.12.2005: Cancel the skiing holiday (II)
- 09.12.2005: The law isn't always an ass
- 02.12.2005: Why this isn't a proper hard market
- 25.11.2005: It's a tiger-eat-hyena market out there!
- 18.11.2005: Are you sticking to your knitting?
- 11.11.2005: Are you ready for the T-Var?
- 04.11.2005: Did you regret missing out on 2001?
- 21.10.2005: No rivers in Yucatan
- 14.10.2005: Underwriters are back!
- 06.10.2005: See you down at Goldman Sachs
- 30.09.2005: But you could have been a merchant banker
- 28.09.2005: Why should Katrina be a market-changing event?
- 23.09.2005: In defence of proportional treaties
- 16.09.2005: Cancel the skiing holiday
- 02.09.2005: Two good things about Katrina
- 19.08.2005: Spare us from pointless research!
- 12.08.2005: Crystal balls at the ready
- 05.08.2005: Get back in your cave!
- 14.07.2005: How to defend against "nice" guys?
- 08.07.2005: London Calling
- 10.06.2005: Time to become a Lloyd's Name?
- 03.06.2005: When the tide turns, strange things happen
- 06.05.2005: Do you really want to know how brokers earn their money?
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