Reinsurance Rendezvous: le nouveau normale?
21 September 2015
It seems nobody dares say it too loudly, but there was whispered talk of better times ahead at the Reinsurance Rendezvous in Monte Carlo…
21 September 2015
It seems nobody dares say it too loudly, but there was whispered talk of better times ahead at the Reinsurance Rendezvous in Monte Carlo…
14 September 2015
All authorised representatives are not created equal, and many brokers believe the time is coming when the industry regulator will have to sort out a muddle over exactly what an insurance broker is…
07 September 2015
Premium funding is a crucial cog in the workings of the insurance industry that deserves much more attention…
31 August 2015
When Steadfast listed in 2013 the general expectation was the broker group would follow the very successful “owner-driver” model of arch-rival Austbrokers…
24 August 2015
The Northern Australia Insurance Premiums Taskforce interim report, released by the Federal Government last week, doesn’t say anything we didn’t already know or couldn’t figure out for ourselves…
17 August 2015
Everyone agrees data breaches and cyber attacks are on the increase, and that the size of potential losses is vast. Why then is take-up of cyber insurance still so low?…
10 August 2015
“Don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers” is true enough. So is the comment by the British poet Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”…
03 August 2015
Tougher conditions for the Australian general insurance industry have been predicted for some time, but now it appears the peak profitability party really is over…
27 July 2015
There’s no doubt that one cyclone-prone corner of Australia generates more than a few headwinds for the insurance industry…
20 July 2015
The challenges facing Australia’s general insurers are stacking up – but it’s nothing they can’t handle, according to Standard & Poor’s…
13 July 2015
And now for a good news story…
06 July 2015
Mergers and acquisitions are the name of the game in international insurance at present, with the $US28.3 billion Ace-Chubb merger announced on Wednesday the biggest so far. But it’s almost certainly not the last significant merger this year…
29 June 2015
As Australia’s strata housing market gears up for huge growth in the next two decades, a price war has broken out among insurers fighting for a piece of the action, with strata cover premiums falling 20-30%…
22 June 2015
Warren Buffett’s first big investment in an Australian company – IAG – has both the insurance industry and the equity market agog: just what is the old campaigner up to?…
15 June 2015
The industry is on notice to improve its oversight of delegated authorities, after a stinging critique by the UK regulator…
09 June 2015
“There is a compelling case for abolishing stamp duty on insurance"…
01 June 2015
The West must face up to an increased terrorism threat as rival organisations Islamic State and Al-Qaeda compete for domination of the global jihadist movement, a new report warns…
25 May 2015
From drones in the sky to ageing infrastructure on the ground, the world is full of risks, and the insurance industry has an opportunity to cover them all, according to Swiss Re…
18 May 2015
Northern Australia is a vast area that conservative politicians have long seen as a potential El Dorado for the nation. What the Liberal Party calls the “last frontier” for development is already home to massive resources projects that lead the world in supplying iron ore and liquefied natural gas…
11 May 2015
The Productivity Commission sees a major role for the insurance industry in making the country better prepared for natural disasters – and not just by paying claims…