Opinion

Insights: How Can Insurers Gain More Flood Risk Knowledge?

Richard Toomey, senior manager, commercial insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Insurance, U.K. and Ireland, takes a look at the modern problem of insuring homes built on flood plains. Despite climate change impacting the frequency and severity […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Is Property a Better Bet Than Private Pensions? Probably

Legal & General has confirmed what most homeowners already know, your house is far more valuable than almost any private pension scheme’s one-off payment. Pensions that a normal wage-earning person can afford, not deluxe public […]

News

Revealed: SMEs Borrowed £1.5bn Against Their Assets During Lockdown

A Freedom of Information request to the British Business Bank has revealed the full scale of personal risk SME business owners took through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).  The request by Purbeck Personal Guarantee […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Some Insurtech Investment Is Vanity, But Ultimately Profit Is Sanity

Here is a little Q&A with AXA Partners UK&I Sales, Marketing & Innovation Director, Kelly Ward, looking at the UK insurtech landscape. How successful has the investment in insurtech been in recent years? There have […]