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Blog: Is the client always right?
Barely three months into my new job, I have immersed myself in the challenges it has to offer and am enjoying every step of the journey with my customary “bring it on” attitude to life.
- 11 Apr 2013
Middle East blog: Poacher turned game keeper
After a stint as an insurance broker, returning to an insurance company position in January of this year was momentous home coming for me.
- 21 Feb 2013
Middle Eastern Promise
Last week I undertook the first leg of my eating tour of the Middle East, or as I sold it to my employers, “covering the Middle East Insurance Forum in Bahrain”.
- 12 Feb 2013
Happy Year of the Snake
China is a place where feng shui masters are taken seriously. They are all over the newspapers at the moment declaring what the Year of the Snake will mean for the stockmarket and your love life.
- 08 Feb 2013
From Paris with Snow
The title of this blog is slightly misleading as I am no longer in Paris and there is no longer snow. But before the thaw, I found myself in the Francophile’s playground, courtesy of Coface.
- 31 Jan 2013
Don’t use 7-Elevens to find your way around Hong Kong
Whatever you do, don’t use 7-Elevens as a point of reference when guiding yourself around Hong Kong. There are about seventeen on every street.
- 30 Jan 2013
Blog: Extra-terrestrial threat
In the wake of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report many have focused on the impact of climate change, digital wildfires, drug resistant diseases...
- 14 Jan 2013
European View from the Top: The tax obligation
On 9 December 2012, Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to HM Treasury, told multinational firms that paying UK corporation tax is an obligation, not "a voluntary choice" they can make to please their customers.
- 10 Jan 2013
Middle East Blog: Inverted modus ponens
Most social science theories, including in economics, business and finance, are 'deductive theories' based on the modus ponens mechanism.
- 10 Jan 2013
Guest Blog: The modern world of Father Christmas
It is December so it seems only right and proper to use Father Christmas as an indicator of how much the world has changed over recent years.
- 18 Dec 2012
Blog: M&A myths dispelled
The third week of December can be a stressful time. As 25 December looms ever closer, there are still presents to buy, decorations to hang, and tasks to dispatch before you can relax guilt-free to enjoy the holiday season.
- 18 Dec 2012
Blog: Why the FDI backlash?
Few concepts in recent times have divided Indian public opinion more than foreign direct investment.
- 22 Nov 2012
Middle East Blog: 2012's soothsayer
How I wish that the end of year results would prove me wrong because that would mean that insurance companies in the United Arab Emirates performed better than expected.
- 15 Nov 2012
Blog: Talanx IPO - Doing the double
When Talanx chief executive Herbert Haas announced his firm's initial public offering U-turn last week, there was reason to suspect he might be growing dizzy.
- 04 Oct 2012
Middle East Blog: The voice of the UAE
I recently contacted a few regional ‘A’ rated insurance companies, in preparation for a corporate governance article, to get sound-bites from chief executives or managing directors on the drivers of corporate governance in our industry in the United Arab Emirates.
- 04 Oct 2012
Middle East Blog: David vs Goliath
On 24 August AM Best changed Oman Insurance Co's 'A' (Excellent) rating from negative to stable and evoked a personal, positive sentiment.
- 30 Aug 2012
Middle East Blog: Rated or not rated? What is the question?
On a recent visit back home to Malta I was kindly invited to the Malta Insurance Institute's annual general meeting where I had to sing for my supper.
- 09 Aug 2012
Guest Blog: A flexible future
Every European insurance market is at varying stages of adopting web-based platforms, but there are dramatically changing requirements across the board for multichannel retail distribution.
- 09 Aug 2012
Psychopathy versus governance
Having recently relocated from Qatar back to Dubai I had the unenviable task of sorting through the various insurance and risk related books and papers I accumulated over the years.
- 12 Jul 2012
Guest blog: EU Sustainable Energy Week
This week is European Union Sustainable Energy Week, seven days dedicated to promoting and celebrating the use of renewable energy across Europe.
- 21 Jun 2012
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