Trivia: about the nature of things
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Trivia: about the nature of things

By: Pedro Castro Caldas

Trivia brings together the chronicles of Pedro Castro Caldas, published in editions #1 to #9 of FULLCOVER.

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From their unique character, combining a historical and contemporary perspective on risk, the articles collected here manage to lead us, through
insightful vision and canny humour, to reflect more broadly on the current issues in the industry.


Index

Introduction
Foreword
Chronicles published in FULLCOVER

  • The Middle Kingdom strikes back
  • The iceberg and the Titanic
  • The day after
  • Noah’s Ark – was it real?
  • Piracy, an ancient emerging market
  • Are dinossaurs back?
  • Risk management of the “pieces” trade
  • The trigger
  • The Baghdad railway

AUTHORS

Pedro Castro Caldas

Pedro Castro Caldas

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Pedro Castro Caldas was born in Lisbon in 1950. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST) and complementary training in Project Management in Switzerland. He worked as project manager in Mague´s Energy Division until 1987 when he joined the insurance industry as Technical Director of Non-Life Insurance and Reinsurance at Tranquilidade and at HDI Mutual Insurance
Company. From 1993 to 2013 Pedro Castro Caldas worked at Ocidental Seguros and other Millennium bcp bank insurance partnerships.
From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the Risk Management Group of the Pan-European insurance Group EUREKO, where he collaborated on and was responsible for several large insurance and reinsurance projects (public and private partnerships) in property and engineering risks such as the Metro do Porto network.
Up until 2012 he coordinated several Technical Commissions at the Portuguese Association of Insurers (APS). Since 2013 he has devoted his time to Risk Management study and consultancy.