Editorials

Insurance business and young talents
November 2016
Hardly popular among the wide audience, insurance has been struggling to hire talented people. Its lack of attractiveness is a global cultural issue. The corporation is yielding a conservative image with an outmoded organization.
The digital technology, a new battle field
October 2016
The 2016 Monte Carlo meetings ended up in a gloomy mood with just one single conclusion, reinsurance rates are poised to continue on the downward trend by January 1st 2017.
Insurers facing the digital turning point
July 2016
The famous “digital turning point” subject of all fantasy. The dissemination of the internet is at the core of a profound mutation for the insurer' business. The first victim to fall prey to this technological     breakthrough is the traditional distribution network of insurance which will gradually be replaced by a direct insurer-insured relationship by means of the  cellular phone, tablet or bracelet watch,…
Afro-optimism
June 2016
On the eve of Africa Re’s 40th anniversary due to be held on June 15,  2016 in Kigali, the least one can say is that the overall outcome of the pan African reinsurance company has been crowned with   smashing and unprecedented success.
The GAIF, between lights and shadows
May 2016
Set up in 1964, the General Arab Insurance Federation “GAIF”, includes, by the end of 2013, nearly 330 companies scattered around twenty countries. It stretches out over a vast area extending from the Atlantic to the borders of Turkey and Iran.
The farewell waltz*
April 2016
An unprecedented movement is shaking the business. Insurers, reinsurers and major brokers are affected by moves of departures and arrivals that are picking up month after month.
The insurance of connected items
March 2016
The life of insurers is no longer that rosy path where everything is paved in gold. The unstable environment where they are operating does no longer allow them any respite.
The insurance industry, the limits of a system
February 2016
Going from crisis to crisis, the insurers have been under continuous pressure. Major players on the economic scene, insurers have been caught up at the heart of all upheavals: sub-primes, financial crises, terrorism attacks, wars, natural and man-made catastrophes, global warming,…
2016 shaped by change
January 2016
At the traditional end-of-the-year assessment,   insurers and reinsurers may breathe a sigh of relief as 2015 was not a particularly difficult year. The peace of mind and the calmness surrounding the insurance business were not troubled by either exceptional events or resounding bankruptcies. The results are sometimes below expectations; they remain, nonetheless, on the safe side.
Africa, Middle East: great moves in the reinsurance business
December 2015
While in mature countries, the hierarchy of reinsurance has been established for a long time, the other markets elsewhere are still undergoing a full overhaul of their hierarchy.
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