Insurance & Reinsurance
Good cop bad cop with Admiral after H1 results
Motor insurance is a great leveller in financial services and those who make a margin in it should get a pat on the back from their investors. […]
Articles by alastair walker
Insurance & Reinsurance
No win-no fee advertising – a tough one to call
Neil Rose’s latest column in the Guardian illustrates the difficulty facing policymakers in curtailing the negative consequences of a system that is unpopular with the public while simultaneously being one of the only ways to fulfill our basic right of access to justice. […]
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BIBA Journalism awards nomination for Insurance Edge
After only seven months of publishing insightful commentary, Insurance Edge was delighted to be nominated at the prestigious British Insurance Brokers Association Awards 2010, in the ‘Online’ category. The nomination was given for Insurance Edge’s […]
Crain’s Manchester Business R.I.P
I was saddened to see the news this morning that Crain’s Manchester Business had been put into administration after two years. The publication had an admirable approach to business journalism and its reporters had a high degree of integrity for the most part. […]
Insurance & Reinsurance
Airmic 2010 – Aon tightens its grip
the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers conference in Manchester has thrown up one or two interesting things, against my expectations. […]
Insurance & Reinsurance
The first of many leaks to come?
Towergate creates two pl cs and appoints ipo specialist – Postonline. Post Magazine’s front page lead resurrects the Towergate will they won’t they flotation story and quite right too. Armed with the knowledge that everyone’s […]
HR & Employment
From facebook to sales book – Postonline
From facebook to sales book – Postonline. Social networking, broker focus This piece by Amy Ellis looks into the facebook/twitter/linkedin world of social networking and asks brokers if they reckon they can use it to […]
Legal
Is the rise of LPO now an inevitability?
This is the kind of processing nightmare that corporates have charged their in-house teams to deal with and as the Gazette article suggests, there are firms now that claim to have the infrastructure and wherewithall to manage it profitably at a fraction of the price. […]