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Insurance & Reinsurance

Referral fees – cash in while you can

Understandably the insurance industry reacted negatively to the news, but in the end cold, hard cash did the talking some days later. on 31st May, stock market analyst Collins Stewart was bullish about the prospects of FTSE 100 darling Admiral Insurance precisely because of the LSB’s protectionist stance. Referral fees are to continue and Admiral will carry on earning a tidy sum from them; a fact that won’t have gone unnoticed by the many pension funds with holdings in the motor insurer. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

How we reported on Japan

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami have of course dominated the (re)insurance pages for the last 10 days or so. I have mentioned before on these pages the slightly odd nature of being a business journalist […]