The Review's Cedant's Guide to Renewals 2006

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As co-sponsor of the 2006 Baden-Baden Meeting, Guy Carpenter collaborated with The Review magazine to publish the Cedant's Guide to Renewals 2006. In this comprehensive publication, Guy Carpenter specialists assess key issues facing ceding companies as renewals season approaches and provide insights into a wide range of topics, including new capital, global property, international casualty, contracts and claims, rating agencies and enterprise risk management.

Date

Chapter

October 2006

Introduction

By Greg Dobie, editor of The Review.

October 2006

Chapter 1: Capital Movements

The search for new capital following last year's storms was met with measured success, particularly by new investment vehicles. David Priebe considers the future role for mobile capital markets.

October 2006

Chapter 2: Property

Tim Gardner takes a look at the past, present and future of global property reinsurance and asks whether ghosts will be returning to haunt the industry.

October 2006

Chapter 3: U.S. Casualty Market Outlook

Cost of capital may be the burning issue and despite Katrina not impacting the market in the way that many anticipated there remain significant challenges across various pockets in the US, says Andrew Marcell.

October 2006

Chapter 4: Global Casualty Outlook

Motor excess of loss business across Europe will see some interesting renewals discussion, but the increase in class action lawsuits throughout the continent, and a lack of liability capacity in Asia, are also causes for concern. Andrew Marcell reports.

October 2006

Chapter 5: Contracts and Claims

The record storm-related losses of 2005 will once again cause claim payment anxieties amongst ceding companies. With more dollars now at stake, more pushback is inevitable, says Charles Higham.

October 2006

Chapter 6: Rating Agency Recalibrations

Michele Fleckenstein reviews how the rating agencies have re-evaluated their capital adequacy models and catastrophe tests to include the likes of global terrorism exposure and considers how insurers and reinsurers can best adapt to these changes.

October 2006

Chapter 7: Enterprise Risk Management

As the global industry rushes headlong into a minefield of new compliance issues, Donald Mango discusses how re/insurers can best navigate enterprise risk management and provide the regulators and rating agencies with exactly what they are seeking.

October 2006

Biographies