January 2014/4

It is perhaps fitting that on new Lloyd's CEO Inga Beale's first day in the office, details should emerge of a different nuance to the Vision 2025 strategy ushered in by chairman John Nelson.

Flagstone founder Mark Byrne looks set to realise his long-held ambition to acquire a Lloyd's platform by purchasing Sportscover's managing agency, The Insurance Insider can report.

US-listed P&C (re)insurance stocks closed down across the board today (24 January), shadowing falls in the wider stock markets as investors got the jitters over emerging market economies.