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Swiss Re: Surviving in an Inefficient World
Japanese liability with European motor." As Swiss Re looks to capture market data to refine its underwriting decisions, Gray cautioned that perfect metrics are hard to come by. One ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 10, 2009
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Europe's Weather Risk Collaboration a New Approach to Measuring Catastrophe Threats
East Anglia, a key source of climate change research. While climate scientists maintain the e-mails are being misinterpreted, skeptics of man-made climate change claim the contents ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 7, 2009
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Zurich Looks Into Broader and Deeper Life Expansion in Asia
Mario Greco, CEO of global life insurance at Zurich. Indonesia's life insurance penetration is low at 0.9% in terms of gross domestic product, according to Swiss Re's [85009] sigma ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 1, 2009
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Swiss Re Sponsors $75 Million Mortality Bond, Includes Cover for Pandemic
Risk Management Solutions Inc., which said the transaction marks the first time that an excess mortality securitization was structured using a probabilistic catastrophe model ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 24, 2009
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Swiss Re Posts 3Q Profit as Capital Base Strengthens
...Many lines of business are significantly underpriced. Our outlook is positive. We have successfully navigated our way through some very tough times." In a comment on the results, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 3, 2009
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Financial Crisis Forces Capital Management and Regulatory Changes Across Asia
... Asia in the near to medium term. "What is needed is a global solvency standard that Asia can follow. Without this, it is still immature to talk about convergence," said Wong. In ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 27, 2009
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Malaysia Life Association Calls for Government Help to Boost Lift Insurance Penetration
The Life Insurance Association of Malaysia has asked the government to provide more incentives for insurance purchases and to set up a private pension scheme in Malaysia. Life ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 22, 2009
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Swiss Re Cleared for Retakaful Licence in Malaysia
East over the past three years. "This new licence will allow us to consolidate and enlarge the scope of our efforts by also proving general retakaful solutions," said Marcel Omar ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 8, 2009
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Investment-Linked Product Sales Point to Recovery in China
Greatwall Life Insurance Co., Citic-Prudential Life Insurance Co. and Pacific-Antai Life Insurance Co. The regulator's move is a "positive sign" for the investment market in China, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 21, 2009
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Japan's Insurance Market Struggles With a Tangle of Tough Economic Conditions
Japanese economic conditions," said Wong. In the 2008 fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, the Life Insurance Association of Japan's report on 44 life insurers showed a dual drop of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 14, 2009
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Swiss Re: Financial Crisis Hurt Insurers in 2008
Swiss Re and co-author of the report, told BestWeek Europe. "The global insurance sector shrank by 2% and there was a severe decline in investments. But emerging markets grew, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 2, 2009
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Reinsurers Look to Emerging Markets, Mergers as Financial Conditions Cloud Renewal Picture
Asia and the Pacific Rim for new business. Mergers and acquisitions will also be an important factor shaping the reinsurance market in the near future. Mergers and Acquisitions ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 23, 2009
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BestWeek: MetLife Expands Bank Through Residential Mortgage Lending
Despite a slump in the U.S. housing market, MetLife Inc. is seeking to expand its bank by delving into the residential mortgage origination business with help from its well-known ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 5, 2009
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SARS Experience Preps Asia for Swine Flu Threat
United States and Europe, he said. Lessons Learned People are ready to accept rules and procedures for the swine flu as they have recognized dealing with a pandemic is not just the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 12, 2009
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Modest 1Q Gains Suggest Smoother Road to Recovery for Swiss Re
European Windstorm Klaus. Underwriting Strategy In a bid to boost its underwriting performance, Swiss Re shifted its property/casualty portfolio away from casualty lines and into ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 11, 2009
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Takaful Expected to Grow Rapidly as Financial Crisis Ebbs
Swiss Re said in a sigma report. Raising public awareness of takaful is key to development in Muslim countries, said Staib in an interview. Standardization of operating models and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 5, 2009
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Cross-Border Growth is Essential for Many Insurers, But Panic May Ruin the Prospects
... Services Group, Citigroup and the Wharton School Risk Center. According to the report, the financial crisis "exposed a lack of coordination among policymakers, regulators and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 2, 2009
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Swiss Re: Emerging Markets Continued to Grow in 2007
South and East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Growth in the life market slowed to 14% from 19% in 2006, but was still above the 2002-2006 average. Swiss Re found that ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 4, 2008
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Swiss Re: Financial Crisis Puts Retirement Funding Problems Into Sharp Focus
Europe and North America in longevity among their citizens. In 1955, life expectancy at birth in developed countries was between 65 and 70 years of age. It has now risen to 80 and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 27, 2008
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Daybook for Monday, Oct. 20, 2008: 17th Anniversary of the Oakland Hills Fire
The conference runs through Oct. 22. - The National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit goes into its second day at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. - The American ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 17, 2008
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