Institute Journal Volume 31 No. 3 - Jun 2008

Trends June/July

A Day in the Life of a Broker - Part 2

CEO Viewpoint - Terry Towell, CEO, Allianz

An Applied Approach to Enterprise Risk Management

Top 10 Risks for the Insurance Industry

Perspective on Risk Management Under APRA Regulation

Portrait of a Technophobe

Inside the Prime Minister's 2020

In Brief

Events

Institute Journal Volume 31 No. 2 - Apr 2008

Trends April/May

A Day in the Life of a Broker

From the CEO

CEO Viewpoint - David Smith, CEO, Zurich Financial Services Australia

What is La Nina Costing Insurers and What Can They Do About It?

People Used to Talk About the Weather: Now They Just Talk About Climate Change

Income Protection Claims for your Psychological Condition

The Duplicitous Travel Agent - A Call for Clear and Effective Communication

Evaluating General Insurance Premiums

In Brief

Events

Institute Journal Volume 31 Issue 01 - Mar 2008

Trends Feb/March 2008

People - Energy or Experience.

Viewpoint. Industry leaders share their views with Journal readers.

2008’s most important industry issues.

The Global Insurance Market: Clouds on the horizon.

Comment: What can we do about the Reckless Insured?

Industry Resources: Insurance statistics Australia- twenty years of achievement.

Legal Update: Liability Insurance- Time for a new operative clause.

Aon Re Scholarship: The scourge of demand surge.

Careers: Industry HR issues.

In Brief: News from the Institute.

2008 Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards.

Events Calendar.

New members.

Before you go…

Institute Journal Volume 30 No. 5 - Oct 2007

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Estelle Pearson, Manging Director, Finity Consulting

Regulatory Update: Utmost Good Faith - Some Recent Developments

Financial Reform in New Zealand

The Changing Face of Insurance Accounting

Placing Risk Overseas and Proposed Regulation of Direct Offshore Foreign Investors

Insurance, Medicine, the Law and the Pursuit of Truth

Liability for Consequential Loss When a Valid Claim isn't Paid

Institute Journal Volume 30 No. 4 - Aug 2007

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Heinrich Eder, CEO, Munich Re Group in Australasia

Feature: Financial Planning Baby Boomers - Doing if for themselves

Feature: Financial Plaaning Better Super - Superannuation Reform in Australia

Outperforming the Stock Market: Why Strategies are Important

The Financial Planners and Underwriters Relationship

Business Succession Planning - Some FAQs

Workers' Compensation, OHS and the 'New' Federalism

The Comcare Self-Insurance Option

Institute Journal Volume 30 No. 3 - Jun 2007

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Mario Pirone, CEO, CGU Insurance

Personal Lines Insurance: A Century of Damage - Property Loss due to Natural Perils

Personal Lines Insurance: The Looming Challenges

Personal Lines Insurance: There's No Such Thing as Absolute Safety

A Marriage Made in Heaven

Reinsurers Beware!

Three Colours - Professional Indemnity Insurance (Part 2)

Insurance Plan Helps Save Endangered Snow Leopard

Institute Journal Volume 30 No. 2 - Apr 2007

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - John Tsouroutis, CEO, Territory Insurance Office

Climate Change: The Impact on Insured Property Losses in Australia

Climate Change: Insuring the Built Environment for Extreme Weather Events

Climate Change: Global Warming Can't Be Ignored by Investors

The Changing Role of the Expert Witness

Three Colours - Professional Indemnity Insurance (Part 1)

Contractual Obligations

Institute Journal Volume 30 No. 1 - Mar 2007

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Bob Buckley, Managing Director, Wesfarmers Insurance

APRA Regulated Captives - A Loss of Opportunity

Employer Responsibilities Regarding Risk to Employees From Members of the Public

Financial Planning Update: Demographic Change and Investment Returns

Financial Planning Update: Ducking and Weaving on Interest Rates

Swings and Roundabouts - Claims with Foreign Jurisdictional Issues

Obvious Risk Not So Obvious

Institute Journal Volume 29 No. 5 - Oct 2006

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Diana Eilert, Group Executive, People Technology and Marketing, Suncorp

China's General Insurance Market: Contextual and Current Conditions

Building Vietnam's Insurance Education Capabilities

An Updated Overview of Political Risk Insurance

The Increasing Trend of Host Employers' Liability

Plaintiff Lawyers Look to Class Actions

Institute Journal Volume 29 No. 4 - Aug 2006

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Roger Bell, CEO, Vero New Zealand

Financial Planning Update: Rational Man vs Psychological Realities

Financial Planning Update: The New Zealand Financial Planning Industy - Parallels with Australia

Financial Planning Update: Business Succession Planning

Insurance Business: The Pearl River Delta Perspective

In Pursuit of Contract Certainty

Maximising the Value of Your FCR

HIH Scheme: Small Clause - Big Impact

Insuring Historical Buildings in Australia - Lessons from Overseas

CIP Case Studies - How to Meet Your Professional Requirements

Institute Journal Volume 29 No. 3 - Jun 2006

From the CEO

CEO Viewpoint - Brian Carpenter, CEO, Asia, Australia and New Zealand Jardine Lloyd Thomson

Medical Indemnity - An Update

Recent Developments in Directors' and Officers' Insurance and Indemnity Protection

The Benfits of Risk Mitigation

Insurance Fraud - Victimless Crime?

Peter Corrigan International Exchange Award 2005 - Research Report

Aon Re Scholarship Winner's Report

Institute Journal Volume 29 No. 2 - Apr 2006

From the CEO

Institute News

ASIC - Facing Regulatory Challenges in 2006 - Westpoint Group

CEO Viewpoint - Mike Gurry, Managing Director, HBF

Responding to the Regulatory Challenge: A Strategic Approach

An Overview of the Key Financial Service Refinements Affecting General Insurance

Prudential Times

The Next Reform Item on APRA's Agenda - Governance

Integrating Business Planning and Risk Management - Are Insurers Ready?

Tort Law Reform - A Response to the NSW Chief Justice

Reinsurance Assets - Searching for Gold in the Archives

Climate Change

The Cross Liability Claims Protocol

Institute Journal Volume 29 No. 1 - Mar 2006

From the CEO

Institute News

CEO Viewpoint - Joh Balmforth, CEO, AMI New Zealand

Life Insurance and Wealth Management in Asia

Disability Insurance: Funding Outside or Within Superannuation?

Stopping Dirty Money

The Increasing Importance of Claims Management to Insurers

Naming Another Party

Storm Insurance Costs

Counterfeit, Extortion and Recall

Institute Journal Volume 28 No. 5 - Oct 2005

From the CEO

CEO Viewpoint - Simon Swanson, CEO, Comminsure

Workers' Compensation in Australia - with Specific Focus on NSW

Major Reforms to WA Workers' Compensation in 2005

Workers' Compensation in Victoria

Continuing Professional Development in Insurance

Continuing Professional Development - Essential for Risk Managers

Improving Accessibility - the Insurance Ombudsman Service

Task Force Report on Financial Intermediaries in New Zealand

The Benfits of Offshoring

The Cross Liability Protocol in Operation

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Institute Journal Volume 28 No. 4 - Aug 2005

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - David Bidmead, Region Head Pacific, Marsh

Fit and Proper?' A Guide to APRA's Second Draft Standards

APRA Discussion Paper: the 'Fit and Proper' Requirements

APRA's Viewpoint: Stage 2 'Fit and Proper' Reforms

Managing Outsourcing Risks

International Developments in Broker Remuneration

A Comparison of Aspects of Insurance Law in Australia, Mainland China and Hong Kong, Part 2

Business Insurance Risk - Are the 'Financials' an Iceberg or Lighthouse?

Institute Journal Volume 28 No. 3 - Jun 2005

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Ian Brown, Deputy CEO, Insurance Australia Group and new ANSIIF President

Climate Change - Impacts, Risk and Opportunities for Insurers and Reinsurers

Global Climate Change: Fact or Urban Myth

A Comparison of Aspects of Insurance Law in Australia, Mainland China and Hong Kong, Part 1

Private vs Public Underwriting

Paying for Asbestos, Part 2

Institute Journal Volume 28 No. 2 - Apr 2005

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Richard Ip, Chairman, Life Insurance Council, Hong Kong Federation of Insurers

Australia's Financial Services Reform - One Year On

Bondi Beach Verdict - Who Pays for Catastrophic Injury

Independent Peer Review: Initiative by Australian Actuaries

Paying for Asbestos, Part 1

The Emergence of Speech Recognition in Insurance Services

Sexing Up' the Insurance Policy

Institute Journal Volume 28 No. 1 - Mar 2005

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Kieran Rigby, CEO, GAB Robins

The New Challenge - Recruiting and Retaining Skilled People

Recruitment and Training in the Insurance Industry

Today's Human Resources Predicament

How Australia's Tort Reform System is Playing Out in the System

Life Insurers Multiply their Reporting

Guns for Hire - Reforms on the way for Expert Witnesses

Be Careful What You Ask For…

Institute Journal Volume 27 No. 5 - Oct 2004

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Frank O'Halloran, CEO, QBE Insurance

The Insurance Contracts Act Reloaded (Part 2)

Terrorism - What If They Hit Our Power or Water

The Board, the IFRS… and the Death of Buck-Passing

The Umbrella Liability Policy

Underwriting Commercial Vehicle Fleets in New Zealand - Some Current Issues

Free Travel Insurance - Be Careful Where You Travel

Institute Journal Volume 27 No. 4 - Aug 2004

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Duncan West, CEO, Vero Australia

The Insurance Contracts Act Reloaded (Part 1)

Obesity, A Growing Issue for the Life Insurance Industry

Australia's IFRS: The Eagle Has Landed

Fit and Proper? The Draft Criteria for Fitness and Propriety in Insurance

Proportionate Liability for Misleading Conduct Claims

Education in Hong Kong

What is the High Court Up To?

Return on Investment in Flood Risk Ratings for Managing Flood Exposure

D&O Policies: Dishonesty and Fraud Exclusions

The Cross Liability Protocol

Membership & CIP News

Institute Journal Volume 27 No. 3 - Jun 2004

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - David Matcham, CEO, Lumley General Insurance

International Financial Reporting Standards and the Financial Services Sector

New Prudential Standards - Where do we stand?

The Role of the Actuary

New Zealands' Accident Compensation Scheme

Modifications to Vehicles

Art Surgery: Post-Op Assessment

The Nuclear Exclusion: What Does It Mean and Who Has Been Tampering With It?

Free Travel Insurance - Is It Worth the Price?

Institute Journal Volume 27 No. 2 - Apr 2004

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - Michael Wilkins, Managing Director and CEO, Promina

Is the Liability Insurance Crisis Over?

UMP: Saving Australia's Largest Medical Indemnity Insurer

Home Warranty Insurance

New Zealand's 'Leaky Building' Challenges

Marine Insurance - All At Sea

New Accounting Standards: Australian Insurers' Day of Reckoning

A Sydney CAT Bond - Simply a Matter of Time?

Art Pains: Repair or Write Off?

Underwriters in Ivory Towers

Institute Journal Volume 27 No. 1 - Mar 2004

From the CEO

The Institute Update

CEO Viewpoint - John Peberdy, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, EIG-Ansvar

Life Insurance in Asia - A Newcomer's View

Recent Developments at the FICS

Why Use Independent Medical Examiners?

Non-disclosure and Misrepresentation in Life Insurance

APRA Stage 2 Reforms

Do Claims Preparers Add Value?

Case Study: The Use of Non-Insurers in a Traditional Insurance Function

Long-Term Climactic Change or Seasonal Adjustment

New Zealand Update - Electronic Transactions Act