Opinion
Convergence is well and truly back on the menu
The growing use of catastrophe bonds, industry loss warranties and other insurance linked securities...
Back to the future for open-door RSA policy
It is amazing how sometimes the simplest of things get insurers very excited. Take last weeks' anno...
Safe online docs can be a dead cert
Like Matthew Donaldson (Online certs cop unfair flak, Post, 7 June 2007, p16), I was disappointed at...
Losing credit
Future of PPI
Conference no-shows set the scene for gossip
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers' conference this week was notable, as much for who wa...
Online certs cop unfair flak
Chief Constable Hughes of the Association of Chief Police Officers claims that legalising online car...
A simplified approach reaps best SME rewards
For too long brokers have avoided providing bespoke services to small to medium-sized businesses as ...
Competition - Winners
The answer to the question to win the Chartered Management Institute's book Six of the Best by Ed ...
VC culture set to swoop?
Whether prompted by Post's Power List or not, it was certainly serendipitous that two of the top fou...
We need to regain trust
Imagine, as a broker, if a lender got in touch with you to say it was improving the conditions of yo...
Broker price indiscipline can't go on
It's about time that UK composites stopped 'pussy footing' around brokers. For too long brokers, in...
Aggregation aggro?
The rise of the aggregators in personal lines is a phenomenon. They have become a force to be reckon...
Service mantra not evidenced on frontline
While I'm delighted to see that luminaries from the insurance industry are sitting around a table to...
Competition: Win a copy of Six of the Best
In the Chartered Management Institute's new book, Six of the Best, author Ed Peppitt brings together...
In the shadow of the FSA
This week a significant chunk of the UK general insurance sector will decamp to East London for the ...
Working together to bring about change
The Department of Constitutional Affairs' (now Ministry of Justice) recent consultation paper on per...
Synergy looks to innovate with long-awaited launch
It took five years to get off the ground and began as a product for high-net-worth personal lines, w...
New ATE model a blessing in disguise
I write with reference to Paul Asplin's comments (Post, 26 April 2007, p1 - "ATE threatened by refor...
FSA faces consolidation or divestment quandary
The 1982 Lloyd's Act was primarily introduced to improve the governance of Lloyd's and, in doing so,...
The Claimant's View
The Department of Constitutional Affairs' much-delayed claims process consultation was widely welcom...
Win a copy of Six of the best
Post Competition
Clearing the confusion
Comment: Enterprise risk management
VAT among the pigeons
I agree with Morag Heighway that notice 701/57 really clarifies, rather than alters, the position on...
Revisiting old debates
Brokers are often seen as a suspicious breed, especially regarding regulation. But it appears that ...