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Words sometimes fail us…

Winter 2011

We journalists are the scourge of English teachers across the globe. Like marauding barbarians we routinely mangle the raw material that so delights and fascinates the curators of our linguistic treasures… Read more

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Financial Fashionista

Autumn 2011

"Dad, did you really wear those silly trousers when you were younger?" Such was the recent disarming honesty and utter lack of tact from one's young offspring… Read more

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Switzerland: making its own luck

Summer 2011

It's just not fair - some countries seem to just be born lucky, don't they?… Read more

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Ready for the reserving ‘crash’?

Spring 2011

The time to call a stock market top is when the last prominent unbeliever gets religion… Read more

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Dignitas, or ‘the Glacier option’

Winter 2010

The passing of another year is always a fitting time to look back at the highlights of the preceding 12 months - and so our office talk turned to what we thought the most significant event of the year for the global P&C industry… Read more

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What to talk about at Monte Carlo

Autumn 2010

At this time of year it is customary for editor's letters to begin with well-worn phrases… Read more

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The dating game

Summer 2010

The global specialty (re)insurance world is a bit like the clientele of a large and successful dating agency. Everyone pays their dues and keeps their profile up to date, but there doesn't always seem to be a lot of action going on for the members. Like all dating agencies the motives for joining are often as varied as the membership… Read more

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Battlebowlers on!

Spring 2010

What do we in the global (re)insurance world really know about anything? Well, we do know that in order to reap the rewards of an extraordinary 2009, we had to survive the unpleasant travails of a disaster-laden 2008.A year ago we knew we had to be in it to win it - and happily, barring the odd credit, political risk and financial institution boil-over, by and large we did win… Read more

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Best execution

Winter 2009

As the tide goes out on a turbulent 2009, with the currents and counter-currents of its muddy financial floodwaters still burbling under the surface, one market theme has remained remarkably constant - the rediscovery of the subscription market… Read more

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Cash for clunkers

Autumn 2009

So it's all over is it? Has the slow-motion economic car crash that started in 2007 and culminated in the humbling of Wall Street and the AIG bail-out last autumn finally been cleared from the highway? Has it really?… Read more

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