The Intelligent Quarterly from the publishers of The Insurance Insider

Winter 2011 / 2012

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Words sometimes fail us…

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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Data centres: a business critical operation?

Andrew Calvert assesses whether data centres are merely a commodity purchase or a business critical operation… Read more

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M&A: Transatlantic plumps for Alleghany

Having fought tooth and claw to escape a hostile takeover from Validus, Transatlantic Re's negotiated sale to P&C insurer Alleghany may have guaranteed the firm's future… Read more

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2011: The year of the cats

$90bn+ of catastrophe claims have tested (re)insurers, but if renewals for US commercial lines are anything to go by, reinsurers may yet benefit from increased rates… Read more

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Year of the cat: Thailand

For the third year in a row one of the defining features of the 2011 loss experience has been the absence of a major US windstorm hit during the official Atlantic hurricane season… Read more

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Year of the cat: New Zealand

Never in the field of reinsurance was so much paid to so few… Read more

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Year of the cat: Japan

Reinsurers have been racked by Zenkyoren losses, but ultimately it has proved a false dawn for an event-driven market turn… Read more

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Pouring OIL on troubled waters

Energy mutual OIL is raising limits and reforming windstorm pooling as stablemate OCIL continues to branch out. David Bull investigates… Read more

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Keeping London market modernisation moving

The price of stalling on progress may be mandates from the London market powers. Ian Meadows looks at how to keep moving… Read more

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Sharing intellectual property with clients

Can sharing intellectual property help navigate the murky waters of regulation, risk and the economy? asks Rob Stavrou… Read more

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