Russian reinsurance market development in 2010

4th Tashkent International Insurance Forum, 14-15 April 2011

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director, Ph.D., MBA
The report outlines the performance of Russian reinsurance in 2010, bolds the basic trends, results and issues and focuses on the overall market development for 2005-2010.


Russian reinsurance market: capabilities and potential

10th International Yalta Financial Forum, 20-24 September 2010, Yalta, Ukraine

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director, Ph.D., MBA
The report covers the basic results of Russian reinsurance market development in 2005-2009 and 1H 2010, including the analysis of key issues, opportunities and trends for future development.

Interview given to XPRIMM Media Group during Yalta Financial Forum which covers the actual Russian reinsurance market performance, trends and latest results achieved by Unity Re during the crisis of 2009 and 2010.





Overseas business development: goals, opportunities, risks

14th All-Russian Reinsurance conference, 25-26 March, 2010, Moscow

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director, Ph.D., MBA
A report covering the actual situation with inward reinsurance market in Russia and its overseas business segment, including the analysis of key issues, trends and risks.





Reinsurance market: world economic crisis anniversary

November Business Meetings, Moscow, 24-25 November, 2009

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director
A report on major current issues and trends which have been taking place in the international and Russian reinsurance market during last 12 months after world crisis striking former Soviet Union territories.





CRISIS APPEARANCE IN REINSURANCE DEVELOPMENT: FORMER SOVIET UNION

III Insurance Conference "Insurance in Central Asia", Almaty, Kazakhstan, 19-20 March, 2009

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director
A report on current issues and market trends taking place in FSU reinsurance market under the pressure of global financial crisis.





INTERNATIONAL RATING AS THE COMPETITION ENHANCEMENT TOOL FOR NATIONAL REINSURER

1st Azerbaijan International Insurance Forum, Baku, 10-11 July 2008

Dmitry Garmash, Deputy Managing director
Issues on international rating being one of the key elements of national reinsurer's development strategy; basic analysis directions and tooling for company's competitive corporate reengineering.





UNDERWRITING PROBLEMS IN CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS

15th Annual Insurance Conference, Dagomys, 01-05 October, 2007

Svelana Chepeleva, Deputy Managing director, Chief underwriter
Unity Re's chief underwriter report outlining the issues of underwriting in the current Russia & CIS reinsurance market.





A YEAR WITH A NEW NAME

Russian Policy, No.8, August, 2007

«Unity Re» brand is about one year old. The company has passed the reorganization stage and stabled its position as one of the most active players in Russia & CIS reinsurance market. International business development is a strategic goal for the future.





Time of liquid market

Reinsurance.Ru, July, 2007

D.Garmash, Ph.D.
Director, International Business Dept.

This article is just a kind of written notes about one of the basic tendencies characterizing the current development of Russian reinsurance market. In parallel with its positive aspects such as companies’ financial base enforcement, M&A development, rise of requirements to capital and portfolio quality – we could differ some negative ones. Price trend is one of them.





RUSSIAN REINSURANCE: SEASON 2006-2007

Insurance Atlas, No.6, 2007

D.Garmash, Ph.D.
Director, International Business Dept.

Lately, it has become fashionable to outline some unofficial results in different spheares of culture or economy - cinema, advertising, trading or even astrophysics. It’s worth to summarize such results for Russian reinsurance market for 2006-beginning of 2007. There were many events happened during this period of time, so we could talk about the sort of general reinsurance season results.





Reinsurance is good, underinsurance is bad...

23.05.2007 - Insurance Today portal

Interview with Svetlana Schekhovtsova, Managing director of Unity Re





The Development of Russian Capacity for Overseas Inward Reinsurance Business

30, March 2007 - 11th All-Russian Reinsurance Conference


Dmitry Garmash, Director of International Business Department, Ph.D.

On 29-30 March, 2007 Unity Re took a regular active participation in the annual, now the 11th, All-Russian reinsurance conference.The report made on the second day of the conference outlined the current conditions,  problems and deveopment perspectives of inward reinsurance from overseas markets.





United with a joint goal…

Russian policy, no.3, 2007


Interview with Svetlana Shekhovtsova, Managing Director of Unity Re Ltd.

Last mid-summer, Insurance group RESO became the main investor of the project of establishing a Unity Reinsurance Company based on its former reinsurance "daughter" Reso Re. By reason of project’s initiator Grigory Fidelman’s ambitious, large-scale but quite utopian goals Unity Re became one of the main newsmakers in Russian market last summer. The project’s first stage took just three months long and was finalized by renaming Reso Re to Unity Re, but then Mr Fidelman and RESO stockholders decided to cancel the cooperation. Svetlana Shekhovtsova, the former Reso Re CEO, was appointed the Managing director of Unity Re. She agreed to tell Russian Policy about the present conditions of Unity Re, some annual results and strategy.