UK Insurance Trends

Research by L&G Discovers People Think Life Cover Costs £79 a Month

It doesn’t cost much in reality. In fact if you’re in good health and under 55 it’s actually great value. Life cover is arguably one of the cheaper insurance products on the market. But it […]

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One in Three Adults Could Lose Their Home if a Partner Died

This new research by Tesco Insurance exposes the risk that many people carry by skipping Life cover. New research from Tesco Insurance lays bare the devastating financial reality many UK households would face if tragedy […]

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Advanced Underwriting is in the Pipeline

The latest from iPipeline for you; iPipeline®, a leading provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance, pensions, savings, and investment markets in the UK, has launched an enhancement to SolutionBuilder®. Advanced […]

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Farallon Capital Urges Shareholders to Vote on T&D HD Strategy

Some insights from Farallon Capital as a crucial vote is fast approaching; Farallon Capital Management L.L.C. (“Farallon”) has released a presentation highlighting necessary actions for T&D Holdings Inc. (“T&D HD” or the “Company”) (8795.T) to […]

UK Insurance Trends

Life Cover: CMI Data For Q3 2024 Published

Useful data for anyone in the Life insurance sector; The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) publishes frequent mortality analysis for England & Wales through its mortality monitors. The latest updates cover week 39 of 2024 (to […]

Big Data

Father of the Web warns insurers against data profligacy

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has urged insurers to avoid the temptation of using increasing amounts of publicly available data about consumers on the web to price their products.

The inventor of the World Wide Web made a plea to the industry at the British Insurance Brokers’s Association conference in Manchester yesterday, requesting that information we share about ourselves on line – particularly by young people through social networks – should not be gathered for the purposes of pricing risk. […]

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#BIBA2012 Insurers enjoying clear path down corridors of power

When Andrew Marr told delegates at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association 2012 conference that insurers have historically been mistrusted around Westminster, I wondered if he might be about to quote former PM Harold Macmillan by adding; ‘but you’ve never had it so good’.

The BBC political commentator opened his speech to a packed Manchester Central Auditorium with the suggestion that general insurers might have been unfairly lumped in with the life insurance market in gaining this poor reputation amongst the political class. […]