Opinion

Loss adjusters and financial advisers achieve larger decreases in the size of the median gap than the 0.8-point sector-wide decline.

Sometimes, something sounds like such a simple idea that you write it off as unimportant.

One little secret of the insurance sector is that whoever controls the inwards holds moral influence on what happens to the outwards.

What was the best time to be an underwriter this millennium?

Where does the true value in a business lie?

How many times has the Lloyd’s market stood on the cusp of adopting some form of dynamic, modern risk trading platform only to lose its nerve?

My first experience of the gravitational pull of AIG came in the tight market of 1993.

‘It’s a feeding frenzy right now’.

Allianz, Swiss Re or, let’s be honest – Convex – would have been better for John Neal. But Samsung Fire & Marine’s decision to buy into Lloyd’s business Canopius represents a highly positive codicil to last week’s strategy announcement.

Communication remains key to managing clients’ expectations in the current firming market, I was told earlier this week up in Boston during the 2019 RIMS conference.

Be in no doubt, the Lloyd’s presentation to the market yesterday was a call to arms.

Here’s a quiz to get your grey cells working this morning.