All the headlines from our Emerging Risks Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2008 // Aon has issued a warning from its London office to UK companies, which indicates that they may “face new insurance claim burdens in 2009 with fraud on the increase and spiraling legal fees.”Aon also said that,...
Dec 10 2008 // At their most recent conference in London, Swiss Re’s economists predicted a “severe recession until mid 2009 in industrialized economies, including the United States and Europe.” They also expect that...
Dec 3 2008 // Swiss Re’s newly released sigma study explores the latest developments in the insurance sector of emerging market economies, with a special focus on the growing market for takaful, a form of Islamic insurance.Swiss...
Nov 18 2008 // Global insurance broker Lockton has published its Fall 2008 Market Update, a snapshot guide to the latest trends and emerging risks confronting risk managers and insurance carriers today.“The 2008 Lockton Market...
Nov 11 2008 // Fear of conflict, instability, crime and increasing state intervention arising from the financial crisis might sound like good news for political risk consultancies that have sprung up in recent years — but in...
Aug 25 2008 // Zurich’s Emerging Markets Solutions group announced that it has provided political risk insurance (PRI) for the first public asset-backed securitization (ABS) project in the Ukraine. Zurich noted that this is the...
Jul 23 2008 // Alliant Emerging Markets announced the expansion of its risk analytics and advisory services by launching a source of political and economic risk indices and ratings available to banks, investments banks, private equity,...
Jul 7 2008 // Swiss Re’s latest sigma study reports that the global insurance industry’s results from 2007 show that insurance premium income grew 3.3 percent in real terms to $4.061 trillion. The growth was “primarily...
Apr 14 2008 // Insurance equity analysts expect a significant increase in property/ casualty mergers and acquisitions this year, according to findings of a global survey by Accenture.More than two-thirds (71 percent) of all P/C analysts...
Mar 13 2008 // Zurich’s Emerging Markets Unit has provided political risk insurance for a hydroelectric power plant in Sri Lanka. “This project was developed in cooperation with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation...
Feb 21 2008 // Zurich’s North American division announced that it is providing political risk insurance (PRI) for carbon credit projects, as part of its expanding coverage of political risk and trade credit insurance in emerging...
Jan 27 2008 // The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become outdated and is so abstruse that the industry’s ability to compete is being jeopardized.European risk managers face the same challenges as...
Jan 9 2008 // A research study, commissioned by Lloyd’s and the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2007, found that “54 percent of business leaders felt that the risk to their company of political violence and terrorist activity...
Nov 26 2007 // The insurance industry is normally concerned with the very large – hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, etc.- but there’s increasing awareness that it should also be concerned about the very small. Nanotechnology is...
Nov 4 2007 // By Kathleen S. EllisThe stars are aligning for a growing demand for political risk insurance. Changes in the landscape have created fresh opportunities for producers to increase retention and grow their customer base by...
Nov 4 2007 // By Kathleen S. EllisThe stars are aligning for a growing demand for political risk insurance. Changes in the landscape have created fresh opportunities for producers to increase retention and grow their customer base by...
Oct 19 2007 // Swiss Re announced that “according to a recent sigma study, bancassurance is on the rise, particularly in emerging markets. Worldwide, insurers have been successfully leveraging bancassurance to gain a foothold in...
Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28.The Program is “designed to...
Jun 7 2007 // The UK’s Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group has signed an agreement to acquire 50 percent of GD II – Global Direct Insurance Investments B.V. (GDI), a joint venture with Direct Insurance Financial...
Feb 1 2007 // According to a new report the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), sponsored by ACE, “nearly 30 percent of senior executives and risk professionals surveyed said their companies had been forced to cancel existing...