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RISKbitz: South African Forum marred by controversy 20 July 2010
The Global Insurance and Reinsurance Chief Executives' Forum, which took place in June and July in South Africa, saw lively debate, until controversy erupted over magic markers and French in-fighting.
RISKbitz: Reinsurers cap soft market leaks 20 July 2010
The International Association of Reinsurers and Insurers has finally succeeded in placing a temporary cap on stories about a continuing soft market.
RISKbitz: Domicile-hopping insurers escape scrutiny 20 July 2010
International insurance regulators have admitted that they are losing track of where insurance and reinsurance companies are headquartered.
RISKbitz: YouTube - Least popular 20 July 2010
RISKbitz reveals the insurance and reinsurance videos being ignored on YouTube.
RISKbitz: Every bad thing ever could happen
Mega Broker, the world’s premier doomsayer, intermediary and capital adviser, has launched its report ‘We’re All Going To Die and Our Stuff Destroyed to Hell’.
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RISKbitz: Luddite Agencies hires dolphin
A bottle-nosed dolphin has been appointed chief underwriting officer of Lloyd’s Managing Agent Luddite Agencies Ltd.
RISKbitz: Neanderthal brokers are among us
Many insurance industry people alive today still possess some Neanderthal broker ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study.
RISKbitz: Ash grounds industry
The entire insurance industry was closed down recently as the volcanic ash spewing from the Icelandic volcano Eyvhadaskinfull prevented executives from flying around the world.
RISKbitz: NYIE hopes new dress code will attract investors
Regulators and industry officials trying to start the New York Insurance Exchange are looking at a raft of incentives to enhance its appeal including cheerleaders and disco garb, according to insiders.
RISKbitz: (Another) risk manager survey about to drop
A wide-ranging, risk management benchmarking survey by the Federation of International Risk Management Associations (FIRMASS) is now in production.
RISKbitz: South Africa is top insurance destination this summer
South Africa is one of the hottest emerging insurance markets, according to a recent poll carried out by RISKbitz. Insurers are rushing to get there this June.
RISKbitz: PR bot recall down to restraint malfunction
The insurance industry has been thrown into confusion by the dramatic announcement from Bot Inc that it intends to recall all of its male and female PR bots.
RISKbitz: Sir Nob nabbed on the job
Sir Norbert “Nobby” Johnson has told the world’s media that he regrets having had so many jobs at the same time as he was heading up Mocha Re.
RISKbitz: Boss Hogg brings back kickbacks shock
The Risk Underwriting Management Union (RUMUN) today expressed its dismay at a decision by the Hazzard County Attorney General, Boss Hogg, to force the county’s top insurance brokerage firms to resume bid rigging and demanding bribes from insurers.
RISKbitz: Recovery down to executive swine flu plans
The World Reinsurance Association has declared itself pleased with the response of the reinsurance industry to the Swine Flu pandemic.
RISKbitz: Reinsurance doesn’t need bankers, says Institute
The Global Institute of Reinsurance Thoughtleaders has warned that an influx of investment bankers is threatening the market’s reputation as the second or indeed third choice of those wishing to work in the finance industry.
RISKbitz: Those Oscar Nominations in full
The insurance blockbusters that are up for awards this year.
RISKbitz: The definitive guide to the decade of the century
Depending on where you were in the world, this incredible decade was the hottest, warmest, driest, wettest, iciest, windiest, coldest, noisiest, scariest 10 years since records began.
RISKbitz: Forecasting for the, er, Tenties
If the Noughties was the decade of hurricanes, terrorism and financial meltdown, what will the next 10 years bring? RISKbitz asked a number of industry insiders for their predictions.
RISKbitz: Now that's what I call the bestest ever films in the world...ever
The World Insurance Institute (Wii) has announced the list of the all-time greatest films
RISKbitz: News in tight briefs
Global reinsurer Mega Re has unveiled its new brand image.
RISKbitz: Data ProLapsi launches childish IT solution
Italian software company Data ProLapsi has extended its FAC.IT suite of solutions with the addition of three new products.
RISKbitz: Orlando plans risk and insurance theme park
So many insurance, reinsurance and risk management related conferences are now held in the Florida city of Orlando that a risk theme park is to be built there.
RISKbitz: Even actuaries bored by renewal season
The upcoming renewal season is expected to be the most boring on record, thanks to the absence of expensive nat cats or the collapse of the global financial system, according to market observers.
RISKbitz: Insurer bemoans fall of Berlin Wall
Not everyone has enjoyed the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
RISKbitz: Broker kickbacks to be made legal again shock
20 October 2009
Impromptu street parties broke out in the world’s financial centres as insurance brokers heard that they will soon be allowed to reinstate contingent commissions. RISKbitz: Ireland to be new Bermuda20 October 2009
An unexpected result of climate change in the US is that Ireland is set to become the new Bermuda, according to scientists. Rising temperatures in Washington means that Ireland is becoming more hospitable – while Bermuda could eventually become unhabitable.
RISKbitz: Baden-Baden factoids20 October 2009
Little-known tidbits about the German spa town where reinsurers and their clients hang out each October.RISKbitz: Insurers feign dismay over Solvency IISeptember 20 2009
European insurance companies have reacted angrily to new proposals contained in Solvency II, the European directive due to be implemented in 2012.
RISKbitz: Call for pre-Rendez-Vous Rendez-Vous
September 20 2009
The reinsurance market is calling for a new annual meeting after concerns were raised over the way that the Rendez-Vous has changed its focus in recent years. The market wants a new meeting to be held in late August in either Las Vegas or Ibiza.
RISKbitz Monte Carlo factoidsSeptember 20 2009
People think they know what happens in Monte Carlo – but RISKbitz is pleased to reveal some of the lesser known “factoids” to do with it.
RISKbitz: Broker breaks out of 27-year coma September 11 2009
Doctors are baffled by the sudden recovery of a reinsurance broker who has been in a coma since the early 1980s.
RISKbitz science news: What really prompts the actuary’s “guilty look"? September 11 2009
What senior insurance company manager has not come into the office to find a guilty-looking actuary slouching around his desk? But is that guilty look on the actuary’s face
real or imagined?
RISKbitz: Broker advises everyone on what to do about latest scary thing
September 11 2009
Mega Broker, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser, has issued a generic press release following the latest incident/outbreak/event.
RISKbitz: New Fluency II ruling to hit flacks’ use of stock phrasesAugust 03 2009
Corporate communication directors are reeling from the news that EC media regulators are planning a clampdown on the use of certain words and phrases by insurance PR bots in their press releases.
RISKbitz: Latest appointments
August 03 2009
Graham Potbelly has been put in charge of client relations at the international loss adjusting firm Doublit & Counting (D&C).
RISKBITZ: Insurance factoids – fancy that
August 03 2009
Some amazing factoids from around the global insurance industry.
RISKbitz: Offshore centres to come onshore
15 June 2009
Tax havens are hatching extravagant and increasingly desperate strategies to counter the threat to their existence posed by President Barack Obama’s plan to outlaw US businesses from using offshore tax havens.
RISKbitz: Media news from our man in the funny glasses
15 Jun 2009
The UK composite insurer OoArYoo has claimed that its decision to simultaneously rebrand and sack its entire workforce was a big public relations coup.
RISKbitz: Insurance Monopoly board game launched
15 June 2009
An insurance industry version of the popular board game Monopoly is to be released.
RISKbitz: Brokers welcome swine flu pandemic threat
06 May 2009
RISKbitz: Landmark legal decision made about something or other
06 May 2009
RISKbitz: New species of broker discovered
06 May 2009
RISKbitz: G20 anarchists destroy complacency at Mocha Re
01 April 2009
RISKbitz: Thyme of Texas releases annual letter
01 April 2009
RISKbitz: Sir Nobby to keep pension and everything else
01 April 2009
RISKbitz: Insurance Ponzi scheme uncovered
16 March 2009
RISKbitz: BIG names guy who will turn lights off
16 March 2009
RISKbitz: "Yes we can," network provider promises
16 March 2009
RISKbitz: Broker emissions must be cut
12 February 2009
RISKbitz: Survey points to more or less volatility ahead
12 February 2009
RISKbitz: London longs for return of hard market
12 February 2009
RISKbitz: Actuaries can feel emotions too, tests show
01 January 2009
RISKbitz: Obama gets wary welcome
01 January 2009
RISKbitz: Gitmo to be new captive domicile
01 January 2009
RISKbitz: Rating agency downgrades itself
01 January 2009