Cedant's Guide to Renewals 2007

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As co-sponsor of the Baden-Baden Meeting, Guy Carpenter collaborated with The Review magazine to publish the Cedant's Guide to Renewals 2007. 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 2007

Introduction

By Greg Dobie, editor of The Review.

October 2007

Chapter 1: Property Outlook

While reinsurers are fighting to keep rates adequate in the softening market, capital markets competition could upset the applecart, says Kevin Stokes

October 2007

Chapter 2: U.S. Casualty Outlook

How will the sub-prime crisis impact the D&O market? Kevin Griffiths reviews this, and the other significant challenges across the various casualty pockets in the U.S.

October 2007

Chapter 3: Global Casualty Outlook

Kevin Griffiths examines the prospects across the UK, Continental European and Asian casualty markets over the next 12 months.

October 2007

Chapter 4: Capital Markets

Laurent Dignat and Frederic Morlaye examine the future development of capital market participation in the reinsurance sector.

October 2007

Chapter 5: Cat Bonds

With cat bond issuances set to smash records again in 2007, Christopher McGhee examines the increasingly important role of these structures in re/insurance space.

October 2007

Chapter 6: Solvency II

Full implementation of Solvency II may have been postponed until the end of 2012 but insurers should make the most of the extra time they have been granted, say Frank Achtert, Richard Shaw and Susan Witcraft. Integrating an internal capital model into key enterprise business processes can turn this regulatory burden into a competitive advantage.

October 2007

Chapter 7: Terrorism

As insurers look ahead to the 2008 renewal season, the prevailing sources of uncertainty are likely to continue: over the scope of the TRIA extension and over tense geo-political conditions that may contribute to the threat of a terrorist act. Paul Knutson and Sean Mooney report.

October 2007

Author Biographies