The picturesque German spa town hosts the pre-renewal reinsurance congress at the end of October every year. It’s a great big talking shop, much like the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous in September – but the temperature is cooler and mood is more business like.
The usual Baden scene is of executives with collars turned up against driving [...]

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Talk about climate change! Here in Baden-Baden it’s rained more or less continuously throughout the reinsurance congress. No-one seems that surprised or bothered. Everyone is preoccupied. Reinsurers, cedants and brokers trek through the park in the centre of town, collars turned up on their overcoats, oblivious to the heron stock still in the swollen river [...]

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If Monte Carlo is the place where the risk professionals put on their polo shirts and swap market gossip in the sunshine, Baden-Baden is where they roll their sleeves up and get down to the nitty gritty of business.
It must be a strange sight for any unsuspecting “civilian” arriving in the pretty German spa town [...]

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