Opinion

Here are three facts that made me sit up and think this week:

We all have different faces we present to the world.

I recently promised I would report back to you on a book I was looking forward to reading on holiday.

Financial services companies and their advisers have little over two months to relay their thoughts to the UK government about regulatory coordination in the first phase of an ambitious review of how the sector is policed.

Philosophers have long contemplated what is known as the problem of personal identity.

In the hot summer of 1954, on the Cote d’Azur, Picasso created more than 60 portraits of his teen artist neighbour Sylvette David.

Now that so many ILS platforms are owned by reinsurers, you might think that the debate over whether third-party investors are better served by reinsurer-affiliated ventures or independent platforms has been decisively settled.

Cyber losses are always among the most-read stories on our site. Capital One is no exception.

With honourable exceptions, big generalist businesses with highly corporate cultures are bad acquirers of smaller, more specialised outfits with entrepreneurial mindsets.

Following the pricing story told by the results season – not to mention recent source conversations – has at times produced whiplash.

In June, I wrote a piece reflecting on the strategic choice faced by businesses like Arch to either double down on Lloyd’s or walk away.

Monday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times contained an op-ed co-written by Ricardo Lara and Tim Edwards highlighting the need for California to push ahead with plans to purchase a disaster insurance programme.