Interview
Brand designs
Angela Seymour-Jackson, Norwich Union's distribution director, talks to Jonathan Swift, about quoting customers happy, affinity opportunities and the potential of RACD
The world is not enough
With plans for 10 offices opening every year until 2008, Colemont Global is on a mission to dominate emerging markets. But its heart lies in London, discovers Ralph Savage
Quietly confident
Mapfre Assistance is looking to enter the household market. Marta Santamaria talks to Jonathan Swift about its growth and diversification plans
Leaving a legacy
Nick Hall, the new general manager of personal lines at Allianz Cornhill, has just overseen the insurer's first major acquisition for seven years. Jonathan Swift reports on the challenges he now faces
Brand new, go retro
M4 Underwriting's start-up team, Don Oakley and Martin Long, explain how they plan to go back to the future to shake-up the small to medium-sized enterprise market. Jonathan Swift reports
The man from down under
Despite a turbulent couple of years that saw the rumour mill go into overdrive, Kieran Rigby tells Jonathan Swift why he swapped the Australian sunshine for the top job at GAB Robins UK
Green fingers
The new deputy chairman of Alexander Forbes' International Risk Services, Mike Hammond, has big plans for the company. Andrew Foxwell talks to him and chief executive Stuart McCulloch about how they will grow the business
Take the lead
Ken MacDonald, CEO of Aon's corporate commercial arm, Risk Management Solutions, says he wants to make the division the undisputed number one in its market. Jonathan Swift reports on how he plans to reach this goal
The hardest market in 27 years
A year ago, Mark Geoghegan found Chris Clark (CC) lamenting the softness of a marine market that was only just recovering from Hurricane Ivan - at that time its biggest-ever loss. One year and two big storms later, the world has been turned upside-down..
Best-laid plans
Groupama's international boss, Jean-Franaois Lemoux, admits the group had its doubts about staying in the UK market but, as David Worsfold reports, it is here to stay
From fags to riches
Insure and Go director Perry Wilson admits the firms business plan was devised on the back of a cigarette pack. Andrew Foxwell reports on how it has since gone from strength to strength
Niche to see you
Ecclesiastical director and general manager Steve Wood believes it is the right time to take a leap of faith and develop the insurer's latent strengths. Jonathan Swift asks how far the insurer is likely to go
Aiming for a soft landing
Every industry needs to recruit new blood to survive - the new Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters president Harry Roberts tells Jonathan Swift how it is looking to defuse its own demographic time bomb
Stick to your knitting
Mairi Mallon meets president and chief executive David Brown and chairman Mark Byrne of Bermuda start-up Flagstone Re, and finds out what drives them to dare to be different
An eye for a market
NIG managing director Charles Crawford explains how his new managerial team, its "One NIG" message and e-trading moves will win over brokers. Jonathan Swift explains
Mastery of the universe
Bridget McIntyre, late of Norwich Union, is clearly passionate about her new role as UK chief executive of Royal and Sun Alliance and the company itself. Andrew Foxwell talks to her about her ambitious plans for raising its game and stamping her mark on…
No need to rush - this mar ket will continue to harden
Robert Childs brings a wealth of London market experience to his sprightly Hiscox Bermuda start-up. Mairi Mallon caught up with one of the island's newest (and busiest) residents, to reveal his strategy for "not quite a flea bite in the world of…
Stepping into the big league
David Blackburn is on the hunt for a candidate to lead Miller's assault into the direct-to-client market. Jonathan Swift asks what the Lloyd's broker has in store for the future, and discovers there is a bigger game plan to talk about
Spa-rring to success
Helphire boss Mark Jackson tells Jonathan Swift how, having fought a few rounds with insurers, the Bath-based firm is now cleaning up
Mr Fix-It
Tony Boobier is a man charged with popularising his new firm's solution in the UK: a single pricing schedule for all property repairs, drawn up by independent valuation, to which the whole insurance industry and its suppliers can adhere. If the price is…
Meet the chiefs of two new Bermuda start-ups
After years of being out of the business, Richard Brindle is now back and loving it, bursting with an enthusiasm tempered with a conscientiousness gained from his time out. Mairi Mallon reports
Off to a flying start
A year after his appointment, Nick Starling tells Lynn Rouse why he has not had to kick down doors to make his voice heard
Reithian values
Having resigned in the late summer of 2000, Martin Reith had a long period in the garden to look forward to. By the following year, he was in Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg's office asking AIG to back his venture, Ascot Underwriting. Ralph Savage finds out if…
Why the class of 2005 will find it hard to write a balanced book
Aspen Re has been in the thick of the action after Katrina. Mark Geoghegan tracked down Nick Bonnar, Aspen's head of specialty lines, for a frank exchange of views on the way the renewal season has panned out