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The future's bright.
Independent financial advisers have had a tough time over the last 10 years, but now the skies are beginning to clear with some of the larger insurers' initiatives set to boost the outlook in this sector, says Francis Higney.
79 to focus on direct.
At Bankside/Jason Green Syndicates, syndicate 79 has announced it will focus its underwriting activi...
CE&B lays off staff in drive for efficiency.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle laid off 50 staff last week, as predicted by Post Magazine (...
The right fit.
With more products being tailored to suit direct writers, are they competent enough to meet consumers' needs? Jonathan Swift reports on how direct writers are looking to expand in today's ever-changing market.
Tweedie leaves 314.
Justin Tweedie, the active underwriter at St Paul Syndicate Management, syndicate 314 at Lloyd's, is...
Appointment at Elliotts Solicitors.
Gordon Simpson has joined Elliotts Solicitors from Blackburn firm Roebucks. He will concentrate o...
Y2K still a concern.
The date 9/9/99 might have passed relatively quietly - although the Singapore futures exchange link ...
Appointment at KPMG Consulting.
Adrian Maconick has joined KPMG as a consultant in its financial services group. Previously, he was ...
RSA and Friends' weak life signs.
The life offices of Royal & Sun Alliance and Friends Provident are struggling to stay afloat, accord...
Appointment at Room Underwriting Systems.
Caroline Fish and Garry Lambert have joined Room Underwriting Systems as consultants in its business...
New policy homes in on singletons.
Broker Edgar Hamilton has launched a new personal possessions insurance product aimed at students an...
Scottish Provident makes life flexible.
Scottish Provident is backing independent financial advisers' position in the protection market with...
High number of deaths 150 years ago.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Post Magazine reported on the high number of deaths recorded on the...
Miller goes Spanish.
The Miller Insurance Group has formed a joint venture with Spanish broker JP Bruzon & Associados Cor...
Appointment at Aon Consulting.
Tony Dowd and Richard Minskip have been made project managers within the operations department of Ao...
9.9.99: issues for Y2K unclear.
In PM, 9 September, p7, it was reported that an Association of British Insurers spokesman had said: ...
Hard times.
Reinsurers have endured huge losses over the last couple of years due to the high number of catastrophes. In the wake of last week's Monte Carlo Rendezvous, Adrian Leonard analyses the future for the reinsurance rating cycle in London.
Prolific Trust fined.
The Investment Management Regulatory Organisation has fined Prolific Trust Unit Managers and Prolifi...
Judge shifts blame over injury to cleaner.
The owners of a building employed Initial Cleaning Services to carry out various services on its pre...
Broker Alexander Forbes in push for PI policy.
Broker Alexander Forbes is embarking on a marketing campaign to push its new professional indemnity ...
LPC CLASS trials for unification bid.
The consolidation of the London insurance market has advanced another step with the London Processin...
Appointment at Beachcroft Wansbroughs.
Beachcroft Wansbroughs solicitors has recruited four new partners from law firm Davies Arnold Cooper...
Motor & Legal Group installs 'LogiX99'.
Motor claims management specialist Motor & Legal Group has installed 'LogiX99', a system produced by...
MSF hearing delay.
The Manufacture Science and Finance Union's tribunal hearing against Royal and Sun Alliance is now u...