Browse Crombie, Roger
1-169 out of 169 article(s)
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Type |
Date |
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| Solvency II where are you? |
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Apr 1, 2012 |
539 |
| Sealing the envelope forever. |
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Mar 1, 2012 |
542 |
| My faith in unknown others. |
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Feb 1, 2012 |
589 |
| Jolted by Joe Biden, our Veep. |
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Dec 1, 2011 |
551 |
| Musings of an ink-stained wretch. |
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Nov 1, 2011 |
558 |
| A dysfunctional model. |
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Oct 15, 2011 |
512 |
| First bitter, now poor. |
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Oct 1, 2011 |
533 |
| When global turns into local. |
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Sep 15, 2011 |
570 |
| Eurocrats are not the answer. |
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Sep 1, 2011 |
541 |
| A broken model. |
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Jul 1, 2011 |
569 |
| Roger's London re-turn. |
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Jun 1, 2011 |
550 |
| Insurance under attack. |
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May 1, 2011 |
521 |
| Return from exile, or to exile? Having returned to live in the United Kingdom after 35 years, it's as if I've been in a coma for all that time. Apart from suddenly having to think in pounds Sterling rather than U.S. dollars, the hardest part has been coping with the brutal treatment doled out by the business community. |
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Apr 1, 2011 |
508 |
| The Italian tax job. |
Travel narrative |
Mar 1, 2011 |
573 |
| CDS man looks up to CD man. |
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Feb 1, 2011 |
594 |
| Nattering 'nutter near the end'. |
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Dec 1, 2010 |
604 |
| Your cost of friction. |
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Nov 1, 2010 |
583 |
| Plainly disgusted. |
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Oct 15, 2010 |
493 |
| People, power and problems. |
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Oct 1, 2010 |
524 |
| Accounting gone wild. |
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Sep 15, 2010 |
502 |
| Roger and out. |
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Sep 1, 2010 |
535 |
| Optimism misplaced yet again. |
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Jul 1, 2010 |
609 |
| A conference contrarian. |
Conference news |
Jun 1, 2010 |
621 |
| CEOs open up on taxes, ERM and climate change at World Insurance Forum 2010: columnist Roger Crombie devotes some of his last weeks on Bermuda to reporting from the World Insurance Forum, a panel fest brimming with professors, experts and insurance executives. |
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May 1, 2010 |
1227 |
| A desert of depravity. |
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May 1, 2010 |
604 |
| Risks of the great indoors. |
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Apr 1, 2010 |
648 |
| This industry is toast. |
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Mar 1, 2010 |
625 |
| Death of the social contract. |
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Feb 1, 2010 |
614 |
| Cookies are monster risks. |
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Dec 1, 2009 |
603 |
| Playing the numbers game. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
616 |
| Enhancing our healthcare. |
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Oct 15, 2009 |
559 |
| Rotters through and through. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
602 |
| The monstrous tax quandary. |
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Sep 15, 2009 |
653 |
| The Gates of hurricane hell. |
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Sep 1, 2009 |
583 |
| A century of stagnation. |
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Aug 1, 2009 |
584 |
| Political ironies. |
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Jul 1, 2009 |
561 |
| Of God and governments. |
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Jun 1, 2009 |
581 |
| It's 'the insurance,' stupid. |
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May 1, 2009 |
592 |
| Needling the brass. |
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Apr 15, 2009 |
582 |
| A road not taken. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
597 |
| P.G. Wodehouse on reinsurance. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
575 |
| The big Power switch: Bermuda's competitive edge has switched from less regulation to more as the Bermuda Monetary Authority toughens its rules and hardens its standards. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
1403 |
| Deflating the fat cats. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
575 |
| Pausing for a second thought about Bermuda: with governments scrambling to find every dollar they believe is owed their treasuries and vowing to slam shut corporate tax loopholes, companies rethink the advantages of doing business in the archipelago. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
1854 |
| Crying over spilt tea. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
584 |
| Off with those caps! |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
582 |
| Stinking badgers. |
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Oct 15, 2008 |
570 |
| Games of risk ... and insurance. |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
584 |
| Dreading innovation. |
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Sep 15, 2008 |
588 |
| Revising the Matthew gospel. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
642 |
| The whacky world of Wiki. |
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Aug 1, 2008 |
570 |
| Rock heads rule! |
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Jul 1, 2008 |
649 |
| Cayman and Bermuda not the only ACE place: political currents force ACE to redomesticate from Caribbean locations to Zurich, the commercial center of a landlocked nation. Others could be in line to do the same. |
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Jun 1, 2008 |
926 |
| Offshore's sinking feeling. |
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Jun 1, 2008 |
612 |
| Marveling at losing a billion. |
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May 1, 2008 |
640 |
| Driving to ruin. |
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Apr 15, 2008 |
620 |
| Backward into the future. |
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Apr 1, 2008 |
645 |
| Dominance in dispute: Bermuda, once the reinsurance industry's unassailable leader, has seen its margin of leadership trimmed as other domiciles compete for premiums and the government looks to diversify the island's economy beyond carriers, reinsurers and captives. |
Company overview |
Apr 1, 2008 |
2636 |
| Writing with the brain of a Cod. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
576 |
| Big and small rolled into one: Bermuda, just 22 square miles, is home to more than $130 billion in insurance capital. It has done so well because of the rare symbiosis between its government and the corporations it invites to do business on the island. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
2683 |
| 2 wrongs a right do not make. |
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Feb 1, 2008 |
609 |
| DWENA dread. |
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Jan 1, 2008 |
640 |
| Lighting a fire: at 60, Bermuda rightly deserves a place in the insurance and reinsurance pantheon, but the island has changed, as have markets and the world around it. Yet the "Bermuda Model" proves it has the legs to compete with younger domiciles, especially when it comes to generating catastrophe capacity. |
Company overview |
Jan 1, 2008 |
3444 |
| Soaking in the Christmas spirits. |
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Dec 1, 2007 |
638 |
| Remember to restock, or else. |
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Nov 1, 2007 |
630 |
| Yes, you, insurance, on the tube. |
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Oct 1, 2007 |
631 |
| Model brains in Bermuda. |
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Sep 15, 2007 |
605 |
| Father and Son & Co. |
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Sep 1, 2007 |
643 |
| A quality beyond measure. |
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Aug 1, 2007 |
646 |
| No legs to stand on. |
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Jul 1, 2007 |
595 |
| The graveyard's where it's at. |
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Jun 1, 2007 |
660 |
| The constant battle. |
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May 1, 2007 |
645 |
| Pop culture Patsy. |
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Apr 15, 2007 |
638 |
| Fla. governor's expensive trip. |
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Apr 1, 2007 |
626 |
| The twisted life of a policy. |
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Mar 1, 2007 |
655 |
| Laying down new rules of engagement: a new leader in Bermuda promises to tackle the issue of the rising cost of doing business by implementing labor reform. |
Cover story |
Mar 1, 2007 |
1832 |
| Customer disservice. |
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Feb 1, 2007 |
654 |
| Dilbertian exclusions. |
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Jan 1, 2007 |
575 |
| Insurance? What's the use? |
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Dec 1, 2006 |
613 |
| A bettor who won. |
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Nov 1, 2006 |
643 |
| Peddling the re-cycled life. |
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Oct 15, 2006 |
650 |
| How today bears on tomorrow. |
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Oct 1, 2006 |
633 |
| Outrage at an arrogant bully. |
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Sep 15, 2006 |
637 |
| Gordon Gekko steps ashore. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
644 |
| The Roger principle. |
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Aug 1, 2006 |
600 |
| Crombie's eye for the office guy. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
652 |
| Homer, Virgil, Sappho--Roger? |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
668 |
| Law & order: Montpelier. |
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May 1, 2006 |
601 |
| Au Revoir, Oahu. |
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Apr 15, 2006 |
665 |
| Don't we all need safe harbor? |
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Apr 1, 2006 |
620 |
| The Belly of the Beast. |
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Mar 1, 2006 |
648 |
| Parking capital in a new spot: "sidecar" vehicles allow reinsurers to improve their balance sheets, but with one caveat: it will be easier for investors to flee when other opportunities present themselves. |
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Mar 1, 2006 |
1270 |
| Blinded by 'green' lights. |
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Feb 1, 2006 |
578 |
| The idiot's Category. |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
589 |
| Rush-in roulette: a dozen startups steam into Bermuda and pump more than $8 billion of fresh capital into the industry by the end of the fourth quarter. But rising to the surface, in the midst of the January renewal season, are questions about their credit quality and commitment to the market. |
Cover Story |
Jan 1, 2006 |
2901 |
| Startups awash in new capital: a dozen new insurers pour into Bermuda as the Class of 2005, creating more than $8 billion in new capital to help pay for disasters that are costing in the tens of billions. |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
1195 |
| Cat Kat's slap of cap markets. |
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Dec 1, 2005 |
630 |
| Cannabis and captives, man. |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
624 |
| In search of serenity cover. |
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Oct 15, 2005 |
664 |
| Katrina's winds of change: reinsurance claims could exceed maximum policy limits with a loss of Katrina's magnitude, but will the event change the way reinsurers underwrite and weigh such catastrophes? |
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Oct 15, 2005 |
1332 |
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