Insurance survey 2008: The new masters of risk? How insurers are testing out their capabilities in finance

Insurance poll resultsProfiles: Available online only AIG remains the undisputed leader Zurich pushes the boundaries MAI Ping An La Meridional New Hampshire Rosno Euromoney’s ground-breaking poll of large corporate users of insurance reveals the best insurance companies and brokers globally and by region. The chief executives of the industry leaders tell Peter Lee how these customers’ increasing sensitivity to, and sophisticated appreciation of, all manner of risks is fundamentally changing the insurance business. Modelling themselves on the pre-eminent Goldman Sachs investment banker whispering strategic advice into the CEO’s ear, insurers and brokers now want to be your risk management consultant.FM GLOBAL IS an unusual insurance company. Its chairman and chief executive, Shivan Subramaniam, tells Euromoney, with a note of pride in his voice: "Yes, we blow things up, we burn them down." The company runs a 1,600 acre campus in West Gloucester, Rhode Island. Set up at an initial cost of $80...