Reinsurer Diversification: The Guy Carpenter Model: Instrat®, Guy Carpenter’s quantitative services unit, has developed a reinsurer credit model.

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Reinsurer Diversification: Roots and Benefits: Cedents are becoming increasingly concerned about the security of their reinsurers, particularly in light of the global financial catastrophe.

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Chart: GC Reinsurance Composite: Earning Sources at Nine Months: With the majority of Guy Carpenter Reinsurance Composite members’ third quarter results now reported, some clear trends have emerged.

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Get Credit for Your ECM with S&P: S&P has released a new framework for determining whether a carrier’s own ECM can receive partial credit in the S&P capital adequacy evaluation.

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Book Value Update, Nov 17, 2008: As publicly traded (re)insurers continue to report their third quarter results, the impact of the ongoing financial catastrophe is becoming more noticeable.

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2008 Reinsurance Readers’ Awards: Your vote counts. Click here to participate in the 2008 Reinsurance magazine Readers’ Awards survey.

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Book Value Update: Earnings Announcement Impact: the erosion of balance sheets continues, as the effects of a global financial catastrophe spread across financial markets.

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Get Credit for Your ECM with S&P: Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has released a new framework for determining whether a carrier’s own ECM can receive partial credit in the S&P capital adequacy evaluation.

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Financial Catastrophes: No Storm, Plenty of Damage: throughout 2008, every major city in the world felt the reverberations of a “financial catastrophe,” triggered by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.

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Uncover and Mitigate Product Liability Risk: Avert a Casuaty Catastrophe: Casualty Cat, a new model developed jointly by Guy Carpenter and Arium, Ltd., seeks to identify the hidden product liability accumulations in a carrier’s portfolio and delivers the insights needed for informed action.

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Defining the Value of Risk Management: the fundamental activity of risk-bearers has not been measurable, leaving a cloud of ambiguity in the middle of every carrier’s operation.

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Alternatives to Alternative Capital: (re)insurers have come to expect that alternative sources of capital will always be available, but the well may be at risk of running dry.

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S&P has released a new framework for determining whether a carrier’s own ECM can receive partial credit in the S&P capital adequacy evaluation. Companies with a Strong or Excellent ERM capability rating, a sufficiently rigorous model, and a substantial reliance on the results in making major decisions will be most likely to receive partial credit. The use of third-party modeling solutions—such as Guy Carpenter’s MetaRisk® platform—may be helpful not only in the rating process but also in overall capital management diligence.

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MetaRisk®, the (re)insurance industry’s original decision support tool, has helped insurance companies make analytically informed decisions about their risk and capital management for nearly two decades. MetaRisk has been expanded to give you a full economic capital model with complete transparency. It can be used to data-mine the causes of risk and the financial consequences.  You can evaluate alternative risk and capital management opportunities and anticipate their impacts on your company’s balance sheet … before you have to make a commitment.

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