Articles from September 2009:
P&I Clubs report heavy losses from investments
11 September 2009
Posted in Blog
Tagged: P&I, underwriting
Back in April we wrote that shipowners should consider their P&I club’s investment portfolio carefully; the recession has resulted in falling equity markets and therefore lower investment incomes for P&I Clubs who invested heavily in the markets. The result of this meant we were likely to see a more technical approach to underwriting and rising [...]
Read more »P&I Clubs report heavy losses from investments
11 September 2009
Posted in Blog
Tagged: P&I, premiums, underwriting
Back in April we wrote that shipowners should consider their P&I club’s investment portfolio carefully; the recession has resulted in falling equity markets and therefore lower investment incomes for P&I Clubs who invested heavily in the markets. The result of this meant we were likely to see a more technical approach to underwriting and rising premiums [...]
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