Every article on GC Capital Ideas is “tagged.” Tags are nothing more than keywords used to label a particular article. Since few stories deal with only one topic, tags give you several ways to find the information you need. To see an article on a specific subject, just click a tag at the end of an article. Examples include reinsurance rates, casualty, and catastrophe. Within each article, key terms are set up as links to tags, as well. Clicking one of these links (see the examples in the previous sentence) is the same as clicking a tag. It shows you all stories related to that keyword.  

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Do you have a question about one of our articles? If so, contact us. Longer articles on GC Capital Ideas have a “contact” link right at the top. Clicking it will open your e-mail program and provide the appropriate address and subject line, so we can route your inquiry to the best source. If the e-mail software you use is not configured for this, e-mail us at: guy_carpenter@guycarp.com. 

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We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why GC Capital Ideas has the Chart Room. If you want to get a quick sense of important industry trends, the Chart Room provides snapshots of everything from catastrophe bonds to the Guy Carpenter World Rate on Line Index. We encourage you to use these charts in your presentations, along with the proper attribution.

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We know that different readers have different needs. So, instead of checking GC Capital Ideas every day, use our e-mail alerts to see when we’ve published an article that may interest you. Every day, a summary of our most recent articles will arrive in your inbox. Click through to the stories that interest you. Skip those that don’t. In this way, e-mail alerts can save you time and ensure that you won’t miss the information that matters most to you.

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GC Capital Ideas presents rankings of the top GC Capital Ideas stories that have been viewed by the largest numbers of readers.  These lists appear at the end of each week, each month and each quarter. Get an understanding of which industry topics are the hottest. Enter the terms “Week in Review,” “Month in Review” or “Quarter in Review” in the Search window to access these lists.

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Looking for specific information? If the tag cloud is bringing back too many results, use the “search” feature. It’s at the top of the right column on every page. Enter the terms that you want to find and click the button. You will be brought to a results page that lists article headlines and brief summaries. Click the headline that interests you.

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The “tag cloud” is the list of keywords on the side of every GC Capital Ideas page. Each keyword is a tag used on this website. Clicking a tag in the tag cloud is the same as clicking a tag at the end of an article: it brings you to a list of articles on a particular subject. In the tag cloud, you’ll see that some words are shown with a larger font. Font size indicates the number of articles on which a tag is used. A larger font means that we have covered the topic in more stories.

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Take GC Capital Ideas with you on the train in the morning, or bring a copy of an article to a colleague. With the print-friendly feature, you can print articles in a format that are easy to read and share. When you are reading a story on GC Capital Ideas, look for the button in the upper right corner of the article: “Print This Post.” Click it, and you will see the article in its printable form. Then, just click the print button on your web browser. To get back to GC Capital Ideas after you print, click the “Back” button on your browser.

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We know that different readers have different needs. So, instead of checking GC Capital Ideas every day, use our e-mail alerts to see when we’ve published an article that may interest you. Every day, a summary of our most recent articles will arrive in your inbox. Click through to the stories that interest you. Skip those that don’t. In this way, e-mail alerts can save you time and ensure that you won’t miss the information that matters most to you.

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During busy times of the year, we add articles quickly. So, what you see on the front page of GC Capital Ideas one day may not be there the next. The article has not disappeared; it has just moved to the next page. Articles are listed in the order in which they were published. The newest is at the top of the front page. To see those that are a bit older, go to the bottom of a page and click the “Older Entries” link.

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