The BIE 100 is a truly groundbreaking project that offers Business Insurance Europe's 15,000 readers unique detail on the senior executives responsible for risk and insurance management at Europe's 100 largest companies ranked by 2006 gross revenues.

This project not only compiles details on these companies and their executives, but also profiles several of these individuals to share insights into their risk and insurance management challenges and philosophies with the rest of BIE's readership.

This information will serve to educate and inform the entire European risk management community...Click here to read more

• Welcome back
  Welcome to the second half of the BIE 100, our groundbreaking guide to Europe's leading risk and insurance managers, their philosophy, views and news... Click here
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Soft market should continue--for now
  The big themes to emerge from this year's BIE 100 Risk Manager Survey are that the end of the soft market is nigh but there is at least one more year of cheap cover yet, commercial premiums will continue... Click here
• THE BIG QUESTION: Can brokers have it both ways?
  Insurance brokers have been under pressure to improve transparency and the way they conduct business since former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer decided to clean up the sector in 2001. It took a while for the campaign to spread to Europe, but the debate rages... Click here
• PRICING: Fine for now with clouds on the horizon
  Europe's biggest insurance buyers expect the soft market to continue in 2008 but believe the subprime crisis will hasten a stabilization and possibly hardening in 2009... Click here
• CAPTIVE USAGE: Migration of premium to captives will accelerate
  Business Insurance Europe's poll of leading insurance buyers in Europe found that captives will continue to take premiums away from the primary commercial insurance market because of long-term company strategy plus fears of a hardening market... Click here
• SERVICE LEVELS: Good but room for improvement
  Europe's insurance managers gave their brokers and insurers a classic end-of-term report: 'Improved but must try harder'... Click here
• THE BIG RISKS: Fear of the unknown still tops risk agenda
  Security of insurance providers and financial market volatility are the top two risks that keep Europe's insurance buyers awake at night, according to the Risk Manager 2008 Survey Click here

• BIE 100 List
  For detailed examples of the BIE 100 entries plus full list of the top 100 European companies Click here
• One small step to ERM: State of the profession
  Analysis of the top 100 European risk and insurance managers has found that the ultimate goal of true enterprise wide risk management is tantalizingly close, but remains out of grasp for many... Click here
• Holistic nod from the top: Future of financial risk
  More than one-third of the BIE 100 is financial institutions. The recent turmoil in the global financial markets is therefore bound to have a huge impact on the way risk management and risk managers within this group are regarded... Click here
• Standards debate edges towards compromise: Risk Management Standards
  A seemingly harmless effort to create a global standard for risk managers has sparked fierce debate, Sarah Veysey and Adrian Ladbury explain... Click here
• Comprehensive guide to the European Risk Management Associations
  BIE 100 brings you a guide to the European risk management associations including conference, membership and contact details as well as a detailed history and philosophy of individual associations. Click here

• BIE 100 Directory: Download
  To search the BIE 100 directory, download a PDF of the top 100 section or to download an XL spreadsheet to enable searches, sorting and mailing Click here