Programme highlights

The information you will hear at this event will be fresh, business critical and driven by industry experience. A full agenda will be published a few months before the event, but key themes for discussion may include:

• Regulation and legislation: How will evolving tax regimes affect reinsurance operations in various domiciles? And, with the final deadline approaching rapidly, how will Solvency II impact reinsurance and risk transfer?
• Financial markets: How have company failures in both the banking and insurance sectors affected reinsurance operations? Two years on from the Lehman Brothers collapse and AIG bailout, what have we learnt?
• Modeling: In the wake of some notably under-predicted losses, when, where and how is implementation of catastrophe modeling advisable? Striking the right balance between modeling and other risk management techniques
• Environmental issues: How effective are current models for predicting the impact of climate change on insurance? Is the industry doing enough to mitigate environmental damage?
• Enterprise Risk Management: Where has it succeeded and where has it failed? How can you ensure that ERM is applied correctly to your business in the future?
• Emerging markets: With the average premium per capita increasing tenfold in Eastern Europe since the early nineties, there are undoubtedly opportunities. But which markets have withstood the recession? And is the future still bright despite negative growth in the oil-focused Russian market?
• Underwriting discipline: With profit levels lower than in the past, is there a need for tighter control in order to contain costs and create sustainable business models?
• Captives: How can they be established and grown most effectively, and what are the financial and legislative pitfalls to watch out for in various domiciles? What role can technology play in captive administration?
• Claims management: What factors should reinsurers consider when defining a claims process in the current economic and legal environment? Where are major losses likely to come from and how can the industry ensure preparedness?

Programme content is subject to change.