Archive

  • Shaw jumps ship to Chaucer

    10 September 2014

    Will assume responsibility for enterprise risk

  • Aon launches standard formula tool

    15 August 2014

    Excel-based Astra licensed to Hiscox

  • Hiscox to shrink reinsurance book further

    29 July 2014

    Lloyd's insurer disinclined "to squeeze the same lemon" as rates hit "unhealthy levels"

  • Significant number of firms not up to scratch on IMAP

    24 June 2014

    They risk failing internal model review in April 2015, says PRA

  • Diversification and caution characterise insurers' 2014 asset strategies

    05 March 2014

    Another year of weak yields from bonds is prompting some insurers to continue diversifying their investment portfolios. But with predictions of weaker equity markets and continuing low interest rates, others are battening down the hatches. Jamie Bullen and Christopher Cundy report

  • Hiscox remains cautious on investment risk

    24 February 2014

    Re/insurer reported growth in premiums and profits in 2013

  • UK winter storms could cost £1bn

    11 February 2014

    Insured losses from December and January weather approaching £500m

  • "Tide is rising" on gender equality in insurance sector

    29 January 2014

    Lord Mayor Fiona Woolf urges women to persevere with efforts

  • Getting women on board

    16 January 2014

    The insurance business has a lack of women in senior leadership roles. Jamie Bullen talks to several high flying women to find out what more can be done, the importance of networking and whether quotas should be introduced

  • The technologies reshaping insurance

    18 October 2013

    The insurance industry doesn't often evoke science fiction. But recent technological advances have been so drastic they could have leapt from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Sarfraz Thind reports