Opinion

As the global market landscape shifts investors should ready the aspirin for when the occasional lumpy quarter means results miss expectations.

Over-zealous regulation raises the risk that companies will simply withdraw, reducing customer choice and the provision of vital services.

The gamble for carriers is which InsurTechs to work with and how much skin to put into the game.

The Aspen story is a microcosm of what has happened to the global wholesale, specialty and reinsurance world of the past pricing cycle.

After staying quiet since it made news of its rejected bid for Scor public early this month, Covea broke its silence yesterday to make two concessions to the French reinsurer.

AIR’s Mangkhut loss forecast had more exclusions than the liability cover of an ageing US sitcom star.

In theory doing insurance for big business should be very similar to selling reinsurance.

Although the underlying loss ratio remains stubbornly high, there are green shoots to be seen in Lloyd’s H1 results

Appointments such as Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ hire of an Allianz Global & Corporate Specialty executive point to a changing culture in the European (re)insurance workplace.

The addition of Whitespace to the list of Lloyd’s-approved e-placing software is a big step forward for the modernisation of the London market.

It’s a nice idea to savour, what to do with a second chance.

In most financial markets, intermediation has seen a secular trend of margin compression, driven largely by technology reducing both search and transaction costs. But not so in insurance brokerage.