Life/Health/Critical illness

Sun Life Continues to Grow Market Share

SunLife, the UK’s most successful direct marketing over 50s brand, has reported continued substantial growth in 2017, achieving robust performance in all business areas, as life after 50 proves to be a golden age. SunLife […]

Global insurance trends

Willis Towers Energy Review Shows Losses & Stability in Sector

Willis Towers Watson today launched its Energy Market Review for 2018, stating that the downstream energy sector suffered its worst loss record for nearly ten years. However, despite this and the impact of 2017’s Gulf […]

Global insurance trends

Zurich Assures UK Customers That Brexit Will Actually Change Very Little

Zurich are upbeat about the UK insurance landscape after Brexit, and have posted a statement on their website, to reassure customers that in the short term at least, there will be very little change in […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

London Market: AEGIS Syndicate Posts Healthy Results

AEGIS London has delivered a combined ratio of 99% in 2017 for Syndicate 1225 – this was 15% better than the result announced for the Lloyd’s market overall. At £462m, gross written premium was ahead […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Channel Syndicate & Canopius Joins Liberty in Toredo Project

The Channel Syndicate and Canopius will join Liberty Specialty Markets in forming a consortium to provide capacity for Toredo, an online platform for single situation trade credit insurance.  The London Market Credit Consortium (LMCC), will provide […]

Big Data

FICO Launch Cyber Security Risk Modelling Tools for Underwriters

Silicon Valley analytics firm FICO today announced that the FICO® Enterprise Security Score is the first cyber security rating to include powerful risk assessment and modelling capabilities to help insurers make better underwriting, pricing and portfolio decisions, and […]

Insurance Brokers

London Brokers Association Sets Out Post-Brexit Strategy

The London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association (LIIBA) and EY today published a report to help deal with the significant uncertainty about the ability of intermediaries to place and service European risk from the UK […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Liberty Speciality Gearing Up to Launch Toredo Trade Platform

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, will soon launch Toredo, a web-based platform for transacting specialised trade credit insurance for banks, corporates and commodity traders.  The new LSM platform will allow underwriters, brokers […]