It’s not rocket science… Social Media and insurance and reinsurance

hamiltonI had a busy week last week in Bermuda, with the excellent World Insurance Forum, a breakfast briefing on social media for international business, and helping organise, PR and co-chair Reinsurance Magazine’s Bermuda Reinsurance Club. I managed to zip around on a moped for a while, re-living my youth, but did not make it to swim with the dolphins again – next time when the wind is not so high.

The World Insurance Forum was video cast, so if you were not there, you can watch it. Some really good sessions to watch if you are stuck in an airport with an iphone and some time to spare – very modern and 2.0 of WIF to record the sessions. And there was lots of great coverage of the Bermuda Reinsurance Club both before the event (well, I am a PR person…) and after…with cover in Bernews, four stories in The Royal Gazette (the best two linked here) and The Bermuda Sun. Continue reading

March Madness – reinsurance and insurance conferences a go-go

I’m dusting off my conference gear this week as March is going to be packedglobe full of reinsurance-relevant conferences – so if you need to work up your air miles, here is a guide to the best on this month.

This list takes you from Qatar, to Bermuda, to Arizona, to Dublin – a nice round of geographies and subjects being covered. Continue reading

The CCRIF – in light of the catastrophe in Haiti is the pot for the insurance and reinsurance of the Caribbean nations enough?

I was going to write today about XL Capital moving its domicile from the Cayman Islands to Dublin (and by the way, DIMA, well done on bagging this one). I was going to write about what it might mean for the company going forward, for its listings, for its long-suffering shareholders and for its global HQ in Bermuda.

But I’ve been watching the events in Haiti, and, to be honest, the news of XL getting its EU passport seems to pale into insignificance. Continue reading