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Mark Geoghegan

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  • When I was a broker I never understood why so many liability underwriters looked down on their property brethren
  • When I was a broker I never understood why so many liability underwriters looked down on their property brethren.
  • The margin of reinsurer returns over the industry's cost of capital is steadily eroding and only benign catastrophe losses and abundant reserve releases have enabled the reinsurance sector in the aggregate to earn its cost of capital in 2015 and in the year-to-date
  • You know the high-end boutiques in very expensive neighbourhoods?
  • "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
  • Insurance is a simple business. You take in premiums and invest them. Out of this you pay wages, office costs, brokerage and losses. The money you get from the former needs to comfortably exceed the latter - that being the case you get to pay the taxman and then your shareholders.