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This Month: Best insurance employers to the fore
From November last year to January 2020 Post gave insurance employees the chance to nominate and rate their employers on topics ranging from management to diversity and work/life balance along with whether they would recommend the company to a friend.
Analysis: Broker M&A pace picks up again
Acquisitions in the UK distribution space rose 13% last year, according to research by Imas Corporate Finance. Post investigates what is driving the increase in consolidation and the challenges buyers are facing in their traditional hunting grounds
Regulators scrutinise firms' coronavirus contingency plans
Firms must be ready for coronavirus disruption, the Financial Conduct Authority has cautioned, with organisations’ contingency plans being reviewed and concerns remaining around call centres.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – Hyperion 8.8
PREMIUM: Hyperion was voted sixth in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – Kingsbridge 8.8
PREMIUM: Kingsbridge was voted fifth in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – Plan Insurance Brokers 9.5
PREMIUM: Plan Insurance Group was voted second in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – Konsileo 9.5
PREMIUM: Konsileo was voted first in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – BHIB 8.4
PREMIUM: BHIB was voted tenth in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 – Gallagher 8.7
PREMIUM: Gallagher was voted eight in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: The Top 20 - Marsh & McLennan Companies 5.4
PREMIUM: Marsh & McLennan Companies was voted twentieth in Post’s Best Insurance Employer poll after its employees rated the company on factors such as senior management, work/life balance and training and development.
Best Insurance Employer: What makes the best insurance employer?
PREMIUM: Post invited insurance employees, through emails, social media and via the brand’s print and online channels, to nominate and rate their employers on a variety of aspects including their management, diversity, work/life balance and whether they…
Best Insurance Employer: Susie Wilson, head of HR and performance, The Plan Group
PREMIUM: The Plan Group was voted as one of the top four companies to work for in the insurance industry. Post spoke to Susie Wilson, its head of HR and performance, to find out why.
Interview: Aon’s Jane Kielty, Tracey Threlfall and James Fell
Just over two years since the takeover of Henderson by Aon its leaders met with Emmanuel Kenning to discuss how the deal came about, why now is the right time to rebrand after the heavy lifting of the integration has been completed and what comes next…
Post launches the Insurance Post Podcast
The new podcast will provide interviews and news from the world of insurance.
Pukka owner Freedom Services Group buys Homelyfe
Exclusive: Freedom Services Group has bought insurtech business Homelyfe from Aventus for an undisclosed sum in a deal that closed last week.
Hiscox profits dive 61% in 2019
Hiscox Group has reported a slump in pre-tax profits to $53.1m (£41.6m) in 2019 as catastrophe costs of $165m took their toll despite a significant rise in investment income.
ERS posts record profit under Aquiline ownership of £13.9m
ERS has recorded profit of £13.9m for 2019, its best performance since being bought by Aquiline in 2013.
Pool Re development a 'massive change': Biba
Graeme Trudgill, executive director at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association, has pledged to support Pool Re during consultations about the future of the mutual reinsurer.
Updated: Tribunal throws out Eldon and Leave EU appeals against ICO
Exclusive: Arron Banks' broker Eldon still faces a data audit and fine after it and Leave EU’s appeals against the Information Commissioner’s Office were thrown out by a tribunal, Post can reveal.
Q&A: Forum of Insurance Lawyers CEO Laurence Besemer
In 2009 Laurence Besemer became the first CEO of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, the UK trade body for defendant law firms. A decade into the role he spoke to Jonathan Swift about its commitment to its members, a successful 2019 and why it is definitely…
Trade Voice: John Ludlow of Airmic on using the harsh market to forge closer relations with clients
John Ludlow, CEO of Airmic, argues that 2020 should be the year where insurance moves from a tripartite to roundtable relationship.
Hastings sees profit slide 42%
Hastings’ share price took a tumble as it revealed operating profit fell 42% in a year that the insurer was hit by the Ogden rate and claims inflation.
Blog: The hardening high-net-worth market
Insurers are tightening up high-net-worth policies. Mark Pierce, operations director at Criterion, asks what this means for customers.
FSCS declares CBL Insurance Europe in default
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is now stepping in to protect the majority of policies sold in the UK to individuals and small businesses by CBL Insurance Europe having declared the insurer to be in default.