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Is the industry falling off the cycle? Bankers crowd into the Rendez-Vous, and talk of hardening prices is muted.	Reprint	Oct 15, 2011	580
Flagging the shortcomings: risk models are growing in sophistication but still have major limitations, as delegates at this year's Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous were reminded.		Oct 15, 2011	1401
Cutting edge mixed with history: as Lloyd's of London nears 25 years of operating in its new building, the insurance market works to marry tradition with innovation.		Sep 1, 2011	1564
A market on the cusp ... but of what? Broker chiefs talk of a changing market, and the challenges of being more efficient under the shadow of Solvency II.	Reprint	Jul 1, 2011	447
Rendez-Vous recap: a reinsurance trade group is branded as a cartel.		Nov 1, 2010	461
Slice of pie shrinks for offshore reinsurers: do reinsurers have another option besides cutting rates further?	Reprint	Oct 15, 2010	531
A hull of a journey at sea: the world's dwindling fleet of single-hull tankers, having plied the world's oceans for decades, faces its final chapter.		Sep 1, 2010	1875
AIRMIC 2010: future uncertainties and global program pitfalls: the credit crunch, budget cuts and national deficits gave European risk managers much to talk about.	Reprint	Jul 1, 2010	439
The Rosy view from Leadenhall Street: Lloyd's is safe once more after several years of financial hardship, and the London market's finance director doesn't believe that a serious rival will emerge, at least for the time being.		Apr 1, 2010	1669
Lloyd's two-way traffic: as Lloyd's seeks to plant its flag in more locations worldwide, so new overseas buyers are coming to London for acquisitions.		Sep 1, 2008	1726
Lloyd's electric warrior: the reforming zeal of Lloyd's chief is still encountering some heavy-duty resistance.		Oct 1, 2007	572
A CRAP attitude toward risk: a risk-averse society has spawned pseudoscience and the phenomenon of Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis, a U.K. professor argues. Our U.K. contributing editor reports on the inexorable rise of CRAP.		Sep 1, 2007	1459
Keeping tabs: AIRMIC officials call to benchmark carriers and brokers on their ability to pay claims.		Aug 1, 2007	389
Banking on more political hazards: as commodity prices boom and expropriation and nationalization re-emerge, banks and other financial institutions thirst for credit and political risk cover.		Aug 1, 2007	1859
Reinsurers breathe easier: they look for windfall from higher rates, and few catastrophe claims.		Feb 1, 2007	602
The age quandary of U.K. firms: older workers are less likely to take time off work but also need more time to recover from accidents.		Oct 1, 2006	1357
AIRMIC 2006: a mixed bag: old concerns ease, new emerge.		Aug 1, 2006	441
Spitzer shock still reverberates in Europe: one year on, many still feel Europe needs more progress on transparency.		Dec 1, 2005	600
FERMA looks beyond Europe: Europe's risk management federation is steadily expanding its frontiers beyond the Continent's borders.		Nov 1, 2005	541
U.K. government dilutes corporate manslaughter bill; Tony Blair's third term will see legislation to make prosecution of companies easier, but with directors no longer facing the threat of a jail sentence. In a rush to appear strong on the issue, the labor government may be weakening the law.		Sep 15, 2005	1256
Terror blitz no match for business continuity plans: Londoners give new meaning to "return-to-work" in the wake of terror attacks, thanks to detailed business-continuity planning and decades of terror drills.		Sep 1, 2005	747
AIRMIC 2005: offstage rumblings change the agenda; this year's conference of U.K. risk managers showed insurance buyers want brokers to come clean on remuneration.		Aug 1, 2005	1395
Spitzer rains on Lloyd's parade: flexing its new-found financial muscle, Lloyd's looks to pump up further with a high profile debut in the international debt market.		Jan 1, 2005	357
Spitzer blows stronger than Hurricanes: Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne wash out third-quarter profits, but reinsurers at Baden Baden are more worried about "Hurricane Eliot.".		Jan 1, 2005	830
Sidestepping a quagmire.		Jan 1, 2005	190
Conflicts of interest.		Jan 1, 2005	214
Service agreements unpopular.		Jan 1, 2005	108
AIRMIC examines outsourcing risk vs. reward: sometimes farming out tasks has unintended consequences, such as the U.K. national rail system that privatized the railroads and saw the number of accidents rise.		Nov 1, 2004	751
Gearing up for the new calculus: as the European Union prepares for a risk-based approach to capital allocation, discussions turn to a single set of regulations.		Nov 1, 2004	502
New regulatory axis irks British risk executives.		Aug 1, 2004	772
Vaulting Olympic risk: for the first time, the International Olympic Committee takes out a multimillion-dollar policy to hedge against cancellation at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens. The move ushers in a new era for the IOC, which intends to insure Games until 2010.	Cover Story	Aug 1, 2004	2131
A catalyst for reform fizzles: the recent accounting scandals at Parmalat and Royal Dutch/ Shell have done little to energize boards to protect shareholders from malfeasance. Companies in Europe continue to operate behind a toothless patchwork of "consultative documents." It will take more failures on the scale of an Enron or Worldcom for Europeans to act.		Jun 1, 2004	1251
British brokers face new regulatory headaches: registration deadline set for mid-July.		Apr 15, 2004	573
COSO 2: the big yawn the British enterprise risk regulations are hardly radical. There are no mandatory compliance or legal requirements.		Apr 15, 2004	1168
For insurers, heaven can wait: insurers will play a role in future ventures into space, but it is likely to remain a limited one. With the accident of shuttle Columbia last year, the death toll from U.S. manned missions literally doubled overnight.		Mar 1, 2004	1153
Baden-Baden burden: insurers contend with single-A and triple-B status.		Jan 1, 2004	430
In Europe, Multinationals 'On The Edge' of change.		Jan 1, 2004	372
Energy industry foibles divide Europeans.		Dec 1, 2003	538
FERMA 2003: social responsibility joins the risk menu.		Dec 1, 2003	690
Lloyd's: stepping off the cycle: the venerable London institution is still proclaiming its radical reforms, but also preaching its radical reforms, but also preaching against the market's boom-and-bust culture.		Dec 1, 2003	1864
Pan-European approach to risk eludes managers.		Nov 1, 2003	812
In Europe, D&O also hard to find.		Nov 1, 2003	531
Power struggle: as globalization expands, economies become more vulnerable to the crippling effects of power outages.		Nov 1, 2003	2120
The elusive urge to merge; a riskier world could undermine any revival of merger and acquisition activity after a three-year lull, either way, risk managers are participating in merger discussions earlier.		Sep 15, 2003	1414
Rumblings of insurance alternatives at AIRMIC.		Sep 1, 2003	829
AIRMIC 2003: terrorism slips a notch.		Aug 1, 2003	475
New world order . (Cover Story).		May 1, 2003	2699
Report from Europe: the road ahead.		Feb 1, 2003	2228
Saggin stocks ground flight to quality: The annual reinsurance gathering in Baden-Baden took place as stock market woes eroded the rock-solid reputation of some major names. (Insurance Executive).		Nov 1, 2002	1896
AIRMIC 2002-Echoes of FDR: the insurance industry was tested by September 11--and found wanting by risk managers. This was the unofficial message of this year's AIRMIC conference, as Britain's risk professionals met. (Meetings).		Aug 1, 2002	2095
Harder times for Germany's giants: Germany's risk managers face challenging time as major corporations lose their traditional protections. (Report from Europe).		Jul 1, 2002	1947
Risk management French style. (Report from Europe).		Apr 1, 2002	719
Europe's pendulum of risk: The single European currency is now a reality in 12 countries, but insurance and risk managers remain preoccupied with the terrorism issue. (Cover Story).		Feb 1, 2002	2159
Baden-Baden 2001: Loss and Luxury. (Insurance Executive).		Jan 1, 2002	1165
FERMA 2001: Overtures to The State; Terrorism and the need for state involvement to maintain cover supplanted the new economy as the main topic of this year's FERMA risk management forum, held in Barcelona, Spain. (Meetings).		Dec 1, 2001	1492
Baden-Baden 2001: Mission Unaccomplished? (Insurance Executive).		Dec 1, 2001	1068
A Test Of Resolve At Lloyd's of London: Lloyd's of London has said it will be tested but not overcome by the losses arising from the September 11 terrorist attacks. But will its appetite for risk be whetted or diminished? (Insurance Executive).		Nov 1, 2001	1671
Rendez-Vous with destiny: Reinsures react in monte carlo. (Cover Story).		Oct 15, 2001	2985
AIRMIC 2001: Virtuous Circles and Mishaps.		Aug 1, 2001	2106
Talking Revolution in the Highlands.		Jul 1, 2001	2126
End of the Affair.		Apr 1, 2001	651
BADEN-BADEN 2000: BALANCING WANTS GRAHAM BUCK.		Dec 1, 2000	2113
AIRMIC 2000: Whose Value is it Anyway?		Aug 1, 2000	2092
Third Wave's Rocky Fortunes.	Statistical Data Included	Oct 1, 1999	2285
The 20 Percent Solution.	Statistical Data Included	Oct 1, 1999	2006