Archive

  • Africa Specialty Risks aims for a continental shift

    24 June 2021

    Christopher Cundy talks to co-founders Mikir Shah and Bryan Howett about how and why they established an Africa-focused reinsurer in the midst of a pandemic, and their ambition to make an impression in the diverse continent

  • The beacon for CCR's risk management

    15 June 2021

    Jérôme Isenbart, group chief risk officer for France's public reinsurer Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, explains to Ronan McCaughey the organisation's approach to risk management and lessons to be learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic

  • The alternative in life

    03 June 2021

    Luca Tres has been a pioneer in the development of the life ILS markets. As he begins a new role at Guy Carpenter, he talks to Christopher Cundy about the past and future at the intersection of re/insurance and capital markets

  • Mosaic: building it piece by piece

    10 May 2021

    Mitch Blaser has spent a half century in the Bermudian insurance industry. Now he has returned with Mosaic, a specialty insurer that may just sate his appetite for new ventures. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about what brought him back

  • The BMA's environmental evolution

    05 May 2021

    Bermuda has embarked on a plan to make the territory a hub for insurance climate work. The island's insurance regulator, Gerald Gakundi, discusses its role in tackling the climate risk conundrum with Sarfraz Thind

  • Can governments make a smooth exit from trade credit markets?

    29 April 2021

    Credit and suretyship insurers received significant public support during the pandemic, but participants are now questioning how much longer it should continue, as ICISA chief Richard Wulff explains to David Walker

  • How to make a SiriusPoint

    26 April 2021

    Third Point Re's merger with Sirius has created a big new Bermudian reinsurer. The former hedge fund reinsurer's chiefs talks to Sarfraz Thind about abandoning its volatile old ways and creating a more balanced life

  • MS Amlin AG's Catherine Farnworth: Covid-19 has increased the visibility of the risk team

    19 April 2021

    The chief risk officer of MS Amlin's reinsurance business talks to Paul Walsh about how 2020's events have shaped strategy and how the status of the risk management function has evolved.

  • Bermuda's finance minister: insurance business helped us survive Covid-19

    16 April 2021

    Minister of Finance Curtis Dickinson sat down with Sarfraz Thind to give his views on the state of the island's re/insurance business, the continued dangers of the pandemic and what the government is doing to foster growth

  • Reinsurance could potentially offer IFRS 17 profit mutualisation

    13 April 2021

    Alexandre Tzenev, managing director for financial solutions EMEA at Scor, tells Cintia Cheong how reinsurance can offset the impact of onerous contracts under IFRS 17