All the headlines from our Emerging Risks Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2006 // Swiss Re’s recent Economic Forum noted the strong opportunities for insurance protection in emerging markets and a solid outlook for the insurance industry in 2007.The Forum, which began in London on Dec. 5,...
Aug 30 2006 // Insurers seeking a competitive edge in diverse markets are in the final stages of designing a study that will test a wide array of traditional and non-traditional information.Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners...
Mar 22 2006 // Chicago-based the Urban Insurance Partners Institute said it has passed another milestone in its pioneering study to develop a new underwriting methodology for assessing risk in the rapidly growing underbanked urban and...
Feb 5 2006 // Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as those tasks are when examining well-known...
Jan 23 2006 // Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd., a joint venture between ACE Bermuda Insurance Ltd. and XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd., reported that effective Feb. 1, 2006, it is intended that the company will become wholly owned by ACE and...
Oct 5 2005 // Despite spending more time on risk management, board directors at global businesses are failing to identify and manage emerging risks effectively, according to a new research report published by...
May 30 2005 // The Houston office of international insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson LLC announced that it has created a new division to meet the needs of U.S.-domiciled clients engaged in business in the world’s emerging...
Apr 12 2005 // Zurich’s U.S.-based unit will provide political risk insurance for construction and operation of a modern silver and tin mining operation in Bolivia. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is co-insuring...
Feb 4 2005 // The Insurance Leadership Institute, a study group sponsored by GE Insurance Solutions, announced that the conference, to be held February 23, will analyze the effects of hurricanes and global warming on the Insurance...
Oct 21 2004 // Insurers doing business in urban areas should adopt a loss prevention program that looks at emerging risks and new risk management techniques, recommends the Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners Institute, an urban and...
Oct 3 2004 // While emerging markets are gaining national attention as the new frontier of financial services marketing, they pose special challenges to corporate managers, according to the Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI), a...
Sep 20 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has released new data compiled by the Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI), which shows that urban and emerging markets offer tremendous opportunity for...
Sep 20 2004 // New data shows urban and emerging markets offer tremendous opportunity for insurers, but the industry-backed Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI) says that insurers may not fully understand how to manage the market...
Aug 27 2004 // Zurich announced that Susan Yee has joined its business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as marketing manager in Hong Kong.She will be responsible for marketing and underwriting...
Aug 3 2004 // North American insurers currently are pursuing global expansion at a pace rivaling that of European insurers’ entry into U.S. markets in the early 1990s.According to TowerGroup, more favorable economics, key...
Jul 8 2004 // James Brache has joined the Zurich business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as an underwriter. A provider of political risk and medium-term trade credit insurance, Zurich develops...
Jun 30 2004 // Zurich North American announced from its Illinois headquarters that its political risk unit, which provides insurance solutions for emerging markets, has been voted “Best Private Insurer” by the readers of...
Apr 21 2004 // Zurich’s Emerging Markets Solutions group, the company’s political risk and trade credit insurance unit, announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Export & Credit Insurance...
Aug 26 2003 // Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd., a joint venture between subsidiaries of XL Capital Ltd. and ACE Limited, that writes political risk policies in emerging markets, announced that its sixth year of operation had been quite...
Aug 26 2003 // Zurich North America and Zurich London announced that George Bolton has joined the London office as their first trade credit insurance underwriter in that location. He has transferred from Zurich’s Washington, D.C....