All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Insurance & Risk Management

 It has become one of the more popular insurance areas focused from an investment, legal and consumer perspective.  Hedge funds are looking at the market due to perceived returns on investment.

1) Clifford Chance has advised 3i Group Plc and Khazanah Nasional Berhad on the creation of a US$620m (S$960m) reinsurance company registered in Singapore.2) The company is called Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte Ltd (ACR) and is likely to position Singapore as a key player in the insurance and reinsurance...

60 Minutes aired its story last night on the impact of The Pharmaceutical Lobby in writing and passing  Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.Over the course of the upcoming Presidential campaign  the high cost of prescription drugs will become an issue and spill over into employer plans as well...

Edward Deming famous quote comes to mind as I read this mornings Industry Radar about employers pushing health insurers to either run or integrate with the on-site health centers they are either running or planning. hello Health Insurers--the choice is integrate or die. At what point will many of the...

The attention of state legislators to PBM business practices has implications for investors in the healthcare sector as well as the business models PBMS will use in the future.

While the Wall Street Journal has done an admirable job exposing many of the ways PBMS have boosted profits at the expense of their customers they have not yet arrived at the flaws which make the current business models of PBMS susceptible to competition.

Life expectancies show a surprising degree of variation amongst developed nations.  Circumstantial evidence suggests that the U.K., U.S.A. and Germany have plenty of scope for further increases, compared to similar wealthy nations.  The implication of such increases would be increased cost...

Latinos, especially recently arrived people, are hesitant to engage in a banking relationship, oftentimes due to mistrust of the system or lack of formal banking experience in their home countries.Bank of America is not trying to implement an illegal program, they are targeting a demographic with a...

Managing expectations of shareholders, managers or finance directors is not easy, especially when a third party removes a significant part of your premium base at a stroke.  

After twenty years in the industry, the industry cycle looks to me just like it looked last time and the time before. Despite apparent changes to expertise, capital providers and products; in 2007 the reinsurance industry appears to be heading in pretty much the same direction as in previous cycles...