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Exclusive - Cornhill switches on to TV market.
Cornhill Direct has signed an agreement to sell a range of insurance products on Open, the leading p...
What CGNU hopes to gain.
CGU and Norwich Union believe a merger will yield several business opportunities - especially on the...
Appointment at Warren Hill.
John Shill has been appointed as Warren Hill's south east regional manager. Mr Shill, who was pre...
Mark one salesman.
Financial advisor Mark Bingham (left) of Millfield Partnership, Slough, has been named as "sales pro...
Penny Black's insurance week.
The often baffling world of fund management was made much clearer in an address last week by Terence...
Size doesn't matter.
A new alliance believes small-to-medium-sized firms are poorly-served when it comes to broking servi...
Traditional insurers take on virtual rivals.
Internet firms are eating into the £172bn annual US insurance market as traditional players spend mi...
Marks for effort.
Rafael Villareal looks at the German insurance industry and asks whether its non-life insurers are buying their way out of liberalisation's downside.
How to use clicks and bricks to add value.
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Baltic plan meeting.
The Corporation of London was due to meet yesterday over Swiss Re's plans for a 180m high office bui...
Slow moves at Axa.
Axa Re's likely merger with Axa Global Risks appears to have run into difficulties. Despite an annou...
ASC's new digital recording device.
Call centre managers are now able to record up to 65,000 separate conversations on a single hard dis...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Several new staff have joined Property & Casualty Services. Four new liability adjusters are Mark Ol...
Football competition winners.
John Smith is the third winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. An insuran...
Union City blues hit shares.
The stock market has reacted disapprovingly to the proposed merger of CGU and Norwich Union, wiping ...
Open season.
Post Magazine analyses the implications of the CGU and NU merger for both firms' staff, the stock market and the global insurance industry.
Wood's forecast.
Peter Wood (above) the founder of Direct Line who has been hired by Halifax to launch an Internet-ba...
Flasher with nothing worth looking at.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
JLT to focus on the Internet
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thomson said it expects its e-commerce strategy to play a major part in its deve...
Hackers warning.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor (below) has highlighted the need for companies involved in e-business to...
Newly created company will be.
- The UK's largest insurance group, with worldwide premium income and retail investment sales of £26...
Don't leave customers as a merger afterthought.
We are concerned at the merger of Norwich Union and CGU. Experience has shown that economies of sc...
Prescott to rule on Swiss Re head office
John Prescott, the environment secretary has announced this morning that he is considering whether to...
Royal London confirms £1.5bn bid for UAG
Mutual Royal London this morning confirmed its £1.5bn agreed bid for insurer United Assurance Group. ...