Interview

Interview: Jon Dye - Making it work

With a stated aim of reaching £1bn by 2013, Jon Dye talks to Jonathan Swift about why a recent downturn in Allianz Retail's GWP masks a lot of progress towards that goal.

Interview: Lovells' Joaquin Ruiz Echauri

Santander's swoops for Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley have seen the Spanish financial services giant rapidly become synonymous with savings - not to mention Lewis Hamilton - in the UK and a household name. Alongside the continued…

Q&A - Markel

In the latest of a regular focus on European insurance companies and brokers, Insurance Insight talks to Esteban Manzano, managing director, Markel Spain.

Interview - Arron Banks: The bright side of life

The rumour mill has been in overdrive regarding Brightside over the past 12 months. Daniel Dunkley talks to founder and insurance director Arron Banks about the broker's distinctive approach to the market.

Interview: Ulrich Wallin, Hannover Re - German ambition

Since taking the reins at Hannover Re from Wilhelm Zeller in June last year, Ulrich Wallin has helped the German reinsurer grow both organically and through acquisition. He tells Katherine Blackler about his career, predictions for 2010 and plans for…

Election 2010: Interview - Mark Hoban MP, Conservative

If the Conservative Party regains power at the 2010 elections, the insurance industry can expect to see a massive shake-up. In the first of Post's six-part profile of all the major parties Stephanie Denton talks to MP Mark Hoban, shadow minister for the…

Interview: Amanda Blanc - Top of the class

Training can be a major incentive for keeping hold of employees. Mairi MacDonald meets Amanda Blanc, deputy chief executive of Towergate Partnership, who outlines her views on professional training and the benefits of achieving chartered status.

Resume: Cool expertise

Margarita Freifrau von Tautphoeus, Munich Re's head of solvency consulting, on a lifetime in reinsurance, working on Solvency II and keeping a cool head

Interview: Ross Howard - In capable hands

Katherine Blackler talks to Ross Howard, chief operating officer (Europe) at Towers Watson's reinsurance brokerage, about the merger between Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt and what this year will bring for reinsurance brokers

Interview - David McMillan: Time for the fine tuning

Aviva's chief executive of general insurance David McMillan has turned a bunch of losers — his son's football team — into winners. Daniel Dunkley discovers his plans for an insurer that is already top of the league in many sectors.

The contented regulator

Six months into his regulatory role, Ken Hogg talks to Jonathan Swift about why after two decades working for insurance companies he is now well placed for life at the Financial Services Authority.

Interview: Mark Hodges - Back to the future

At the beginning of January, former Aviva GI boss Mark Hodges took over as chief executive officer of the insurer's UK business, a position last filled in 2007. He talks to Jonathan Swift about the decision to reinstate the role, his plans for Aviva and…

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