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- 02.05.2008: Two years to live
- 25.04.2008: Coach-class survivors
- 18.04.2008: Cold Chills
- 17.04.2008: Bom Dia Brazil!
- 02.04.2008: What a cracking investment
- 01.04.2008: Gobble, gobble, gobble
- 01.04.2008: A bunch of frauds?
- 31.03.2008: Walk the walk
- 28.03.2008: What all top layer junkies should know
- 26.03.2008: Heads I win tails you lose
- 11.03.2008: The political cycle
- 07.03.2008: Aigrain's Fourteen
- 07.03.2008: Whoops!
- 06.03.2008: Hot Diggitty Dam!
- 06.03.2008: Celebrity modelling death match
- 29.02.2008: The curse of Reinsurance Magazine
- 26.02.2008: When the wind blows
- 25.02.2008: Substantially all
- 25.02.2008: A bridge too far?
- 22.02.2008: Tasty morsels on the tide
- 15.02.2008: The grumpy old farmer
- 14.02.2008: Sackcloth and ashes in Rio
- 12.02.2008: Two cents' worth
- 11.02.2008: Round'em up
- 11.02.2008: A Van Gogh, a Monet, a Degas and a Cezanne
- 09.02.2008: The magic eye effect
- 01.02.2008: 114,577 reasons to be fearful
- 25.01.2008: Four for me, one for Buffett
- 18.01.2008: Everyone is for sale, but who's buying?
- 11.01.2008: Warranted no losses
- 04.01.2008: Cold sweat and delirium
- 17.12.2007: Head for the hills!
- 14.12.2007: The market speaks
- 10.12.2007: Underwriters are toast
- 06.12.2007: Victor Kiam Re
- 30.11.2007: Slap me once, get hit by a crowbar
- 23.11.2007: The bear (market) necessities
- 16.11.2007: Dodge a bullet, get hit by a bazooka
- 15.11.2007: Spare a thought for Bangladesh
- 09.11.2007: Old reinsurance proverb say...
- 06.11.2007: Solid, solid, solid as the rock
- 02.11.2007: Do the hokey cokey
- 01.11.2007: Like candy from a baby
- 31.10.2007: Long live the revolution!
- 26.10.2007: So nice that you have to name it twice
- 19.10.2007: Credit where credit's due
- 16.10.2007: Physician heal thy former self
- 12.10.2007: No comprendo
- 08.10.2007: IFC II
- 05.10.2007: Smoking chilli peppers, Batman
- 01.10.2007: Save us from the clones
- 28.09.2007: Phoney war
- 24.09.2007: Your help needed - life settlements
- 21.09.2007: Everyone is wrong
- 17.09.2007: Come on, prick my bubble
- 07.09.2007: The search for Monte sanity
- 04.09.2007: Not just glorified email
- 01.09.2007: Just what is a reinsurer to wear this season?
- 31.08.2007: 2.5 plus 2 is still 4.5
- 24.08.2007: Monte madness
- 21.08.2007: To the cave!
- 17.08.2007: Doing what's right is also good business
- 14.08.2007: A sticky matter of liquidity
- 01.08.2007: Work for the big boys?
- 27.07.2007: Crank the sausage handle
- 20.07.2007: In Lloyd's we trust
- 13.07.2007: Chatham van man
- 06.07.2007: Have yourself a wild soft market party
- 04.07.2007: Take it or leave it
- 02.07.2007: London Bomb II
- 29.06.2007: London bomb
- 25.06.2007: Les liasons pornographiques
- 22.06.2007: Spot the difference
- 22.06.2007: Ta-dah!
- 18.06.2007: Buy for 9 and sell for 3
- 15.06.2007: Don't cry over spilt beer
- 13.06.2007: Texan troubles
- 11.06.2007: Easy come, easy go
- 25.05.2007: Money, Money, Money
- 23.05.2007: Scissors, paper, stone
- 18.05.2007: Read this before you get into bed with a hedge fund
- 15.05.2007: Politicians who 'do something'
- 14.05.2007: Nice work if you can get it
- 10.05.2007: Politicians!
- 04.05.2007: Glory, glory email
- 01.05.2007: A very old market chestnut
- 27.04.2007: The Switzerland of Europe
- 25.04.2007: The kings of R/I TBA
- 20.04.2007: Take the tea-bag test
- 05.04.2007: No more Integro jokes
- 04.04.2007: Dynamic duo?
- 30.03.2007: Fancy a quick one?
- 26.03.2007: False economies
- 23.03.2007: Nip, tuck
- 19.03.2007: Robert de Niro says thank heavens for analysts!
- 16.03.2007: Raging Bull
- 12.03.2007: Brokers who come with IOUs under their arms
- 09.03.2007: The man with the golden slip case
- 05.03.2007: The Forrest Gump of reinsurance
- 02.03.2007: Just like 2005 all over again
- 01.03.2007: Why trust one market and not another?
- 26.02.2007: More soft market stuff
- 23.02.2007: WOW - a little sting in the tail
- 23.02.2007: Sidewalk analysis
- 19.02.2007: On the plane to Zurich
- 16.02.2007: Great Minds think alike III
- 09.02.2007: Andrea, Barry, Chantal, welcome to the party
- 06.02.2007: Spot the deliberate mistake
- 02.02.2007: Madman solves Florida problem in 3 minutes
- 01.02.2007: Pyongyang, Fla
- 26.01.2007: I'm not playing any more!
- 24.01.2007: Hurray for composite pricing
- 19.01.2007: Top-slicing
- 17.01.2007: What does Chilly think of today's market?
- 16.01.2007: Weatherproof? Why?
- 12.01.2007: Game on
- 10.01.2007: More depressing reading means more opportunity
- 08.01.2007: Soft market stuff
- 05.01.2007: They won't call it a soft market
- 20.12.2006: Happy Renewals - see you in 2007
- 15.12.2006: Great minds think alike II
- 14.12.2006: Great minds think alike
- 13.12.2006: Required reading for all Cat writers
- 13.12.2006: Low-hanging fruit
- 11.12.2006: 'Tis the season NOT to be jolly
- 08.12.2006: One plus one equals sticky renewals
- 07.12.2006: What's the point of long-range forecasts?
- 04.12.2006: Is it you doing all this North Korean business?
- 01.12.2006: Want the big choc on Christmas Eve?
- 29.11.2006: Molly Malone?
- 27.11.2006: Project Christmas present
- 23.11.2006: Stop litigating and start mediating
- 22.11.2006: Happy-hour fines
- 20.11.2006: One question about this Scottish Re business
- 17.11.2006: Are you diverse or perverse?
- 14.11.2006: Goodbye Dessie!
- 10.11.2006: Toddlers on chairs
- 07.11.2006: The greatest failure of our times
- 03.11.2006: Time to sell?
- 27.10.2006: The Reinsurance time machine
- 20.10.2006: Fancy a change of career?
- 13.10.2006: You just can't help some people
- 03.10.2006: Make sure you're near the door
- 29.09.2006: The squeeze is on
- 22.09.2006: The billion-dollar boat
- 15.09.2006: Stockholm syndrome
- 12.09.2006: Groundhog day
- 08.09.2006: Why winners win and losers lose
- 25.08.2006: Men, not machines
- 18.08.2006: Everything and Anything Re
- 11.08.2006: The perfect market
- 14.07.2006: Soggy toast
- 07.07.2006: Flea-sized markets get prices wrong
- 01.07.2006: Before you get into a sidecar, make sure you know who's driving
- 30.06.2006: Cuthbert Heath lives!
- 23.06.2006: 6 reasons why you need to be an optimist
- 16.06.2006: Reinsurance and rag dolls
- 09.06.2006: Why a fine English summer is good for your finances
- 26.05.2006: Never forget - insurance is just finance
- 19.05.2006: Great minds think alike
- 12.05.2006: The underwriter with no brain
- 05.05.2006: Why did they bother?
- 28.04.2006: Class of 2006 anyone?
- 31.03.2006: You must read this article now
- 10.03.2006: Surprise, surprise, shareholders don't like losses
- 10.03.2006: If I don't value my product, why should you?
- 03.03.2006: Luck does play a part in underwriting
- 17.02.2006: Six steps to ruin
- 10.02.2006: Oh what a soft and bouncy market!
- 03.02.2006: The $615m question
- 27.01.2006: Four questions for the class of 2005
- 20.01.2006: Didn't they see the weather forecast?
- 13.01.2006: For some people it is Friday 13th every day
- 06.01.2006: No fillings for Marcos!
- 16.12.2005: Cancel the skiing holiday (II)
- 09.12.2005: The law isn't always an ass
- 02.12.2005: Why this isn't a proper hard market
- 25.11.2005: It's a tiger-eat-hyena market out there!
- 18.11.2005: Are you sticking to your knitting?
- 11.11.2005: Are you ready for the T-Var?
- 04.11.2005: Did you regret missing out on 2001?
- 21.10.2005: No rivers in Yucatan
- 14.10.2005: Underwriters are back!
- 06.10.2005: See you down at Goldman Sachs
- 30.09.2005: But you could have been a merchant banker
- 28.09.2005: Why should Katrina be a market-changing event?
- 23.09.2005: In defence of proportional treaties
- 16.09.2005: Cancel the skiing holiday
- 02.09.2005: Two good things about Katrina
- 19.08.2005: Spare us from pointless research!
- 12.08.2005: Crystal balls at the ready
- 05.08.2005: Get back in your cave!
- 14.07.2005: How to defend against "nice" guys?
- 08.07.2005: London Calling
- 10.06.2005: Time to become a Lloyd's Name?
- 03.06.2005: When the tide turns, strange things happen
- 06.05.2005: Do you really want to know how brokers earn their money?
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