Amazing Hank hangs on, but the glory days are gone
07 April 2008
At an age where most people of his age are thinking about moving to a nursing home, former AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is embroiled in a $US20 billion ($22 billion) fraud case…
Analysis
US subprime crisis impacts on insurance
31 March 2008
In August last year Henry Keeling, the COO of giant Bermuda-based insurer XL Capital, said he expected the industry’s exposure to the US subprime mess to be “manageable”...
Banging heads against a taxation brick wall
17 March 2008
Despite the insurance industry’s best endeavours, there are few signs the NSW and Victorian governments are prepared to give up their addiction to insurance taxes without a long, bruising struggle...
Insurers buying brokers: could it happen here?
10 March 2008
In the wild colonial days of the South British Insurance Company and its ilk, it was all so simple...
Dog days for insurers as investors turn tail
03 March 2008
It seems insurers can't take a trick right now…
Who will accept the poisoned climate chalice?
25 February 2008
Climate change is a clear and present danger in the rapidly expanding towns and suburbs of north-east NSW and south-east Queensland...
International pressure drives NZ reforms
18 February 2008
As Australia looks for ways to loosen up its notoriously stringent financial services regulations and cut compliance complication and costs, New Zealand is putting in place…
PI countdown for planners
11 February 2008
Chris Pearce may no longer be responsible for the insurance industry, but the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer would be interested in the dramas taking place…
MMC gets another CEO as pressure mounts
04 February 2008
Brian Duperrault has emerged from the latest bout of musical chairs at Marsh & McLennan in the hot seat of the beleaguered broking and risk management group...