Are Reinsurers just capacity providers or do they have a greater role to play? Sinchita Mukherjee from Premium interviews Tony Cabot, SEO, Argo Re (DIFC) to understand the views of a reinsurer and have his perspective on the workings of the industry. Tony is a member of the CPCU Society’s...
Aryan Schoorl, Legal Director at DLA Piper Middle East speaks to Premium about the ‘Directives of Professional Conduct’, which have been implemented for enhanced and more detailed conduct of business standards. He also addresses the key regulatory issues facing the UAE’s insurance industry. ARYAN SCHOORL, LEGAL DIRECTOR, DLA PIPER MIDDLE...
While dealing with data, the actuaries can see a beautiful pattern, which mean much more to them than just numbers. Yousuf Hassan Al Lawati, Assistant Actuary at Taha Actuaries & Consultants tells Premium about the profession highlighting the signifance and its contribution to the insurance fraternity. Actuaries are problem solvers,...
Getting to the root of the risk, managing director of Gargash Insurance, Mustafa Oliyath Vazayil is determined to provide only the best solutions for risk coverage and advise on risk improvement and protection. to both corporate clients and personal lines insurance. In the UAE alone, we have over 200 employees...
How big is the art insurance market in the Middle East? It is fair to say that the art insurance market has not grown at the same pace as the burgeoning market for fine art in the Middle East. However, with the art market in the region maturing, collectors...
The Middle East takaful market has a long way to go before it reaches the maturity of the Malaysian market. However, there are many opportunities here and these need to be tapped. Premium talks to Parvaiz Siddiq, the CEO of Noor Takaful, about the opportunities in the Takaful market and...
Although Saudi Re is a relatively new company, it has proved to be a major player in the MENA region. Ruchi Shukla questions CEO Fahad Abdulrahman Al-Hesni about the particular challenges facing the insurance industry in the region and what needs to be done to ensure future growth. Q: influential...
Practical, prudent and provocative, Ghassan Marrouche is the hugely affable general manager of Takaful Emarat, the provider founded in 2008 from a strategic alliance between Al-Buhaira National Insurance Co. and UNIQA Group, Austria. Ghassan has more than 25 years’ experience in the sector and his appointment in January of this...
In what has become something of a Reinsurance special, we are delighted to feature two exclusive interviews, giving the observations and opinions of two highly influencial Reinsurance CEOs. We start with Yasir Albaharna, chief executive officer of the Arab Insurance Group (Arig). Yassirs Albaharnas stewardship has seen Arig become one...
Michael Gertsch is chief executive officer of Gulf Re, the local reinsurer owned equally by Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) and Arch Capital Group. Founded in the wake of the region's first wave of Regulatory reforms, Gulf Re handles high-value lines of reinsurance on both a treaty and facultative basis. The...
