Huw Evans
Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Award winners revealed
Tara Foley, CEO of Axa UK & Ireland, has been named Diversity & Inclusion Leader of the Year at Insurance Post’s Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Awards 2025.
How insurers are helping businesses grow
As chancellor Rachel Reeves says the UK must go “further and faster” to achieve economic growth, Edmund Tirbutt examines how insurance is providing the safety net required to ensure businesses focus on getting bigger and better in the months and years to…
What to expect from the regulator in 2025
In the first Insurance Post Podcast of 2025, regulatory experts reveal whether the Financial Conduct Authority will become a pricing regulator and slim down the rule book in the year ahead.
Four biggest challenges facing insurers in 2025 revealed
To get you ready for the next 12 months, Insurance Post uncovers four things you need to know about what 2025 holds in store for the industry, according to analysts.
Insurance Post’s Christmas Special Podcast
Post content director Jonathan Swift, news editor Scott McGee and Emma Ann Hughes, editor, ditch the usual format of our publication’s award-winning podcast to deliver a holly, jolly Christmas Special.
UN forum finds ‘major gap’ in industry underwriting transition plans
The United Nations Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero has identified a “major gap” in the transition plans for insurance underwriting portfolios.
How is insurance stepping up amid election uncertainty?
With a record number of elections in 2024 set to introduce substantial unpredictability into an already volatile risk environment, Edmund Tirbutt examines how insurance is engendering resilience amidst unrelenting geoeconomic uncertainty.
Hiscox and Google collaborate; Axis syndicate; Biba’s 2024 conference theme
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Three things you need to know about the PRA’s Solvency plans
Analysis: Emma Ann Hughes unpicks the devilish details in the Prudential Regulation Authority's 182-pages of proposals to throw the European Union's capital requirements for general insurers on the Brexit bonfire.
Class uncovered as biggest barrier to insurance career progression - KPMG
Women from a lower socio-economic and ethnic minority background face the longest, hardest climb to the top of the insurance industry, a KPMG report has revealed.
Hannah Gurga to succeed Huw Evans at ABI
Hannah Gurga will become the next director general of the Association of British Insurers taking up the post in early 2022, the trade body has confirmed.
Briefing: Dye, Stovin, Masojada and now Reader, is a ‘pangdemic’ reshaping the CEO landscape in UK insurance?
There appears to have been an unseasonally large amount of turnover at the top of UK insurers recently. Jonathan Swift suggests this could be down to something he is calling the 'pangdemic'.
Tackling climate change top of ABI agenda, says Huw Evans
The Association of British Insurers has been working hard on an industry roadmap for tackling climate change and is aiming to publish its findings on 7 July, director general Huw Evans told the audience of the Post LIVE annual conference.
Briefing: From Who Evans? to Huw Da Man - How the understated DG made his mark at the ABI
As Huw Evans plans to step down as director general of the Association of British Insurers to join KPMG as a partner at the end of the year, Jonathan Swift looks back at his time at the trade body and assesses how he has helped both modernise it and keep…
ABI seeks to ‘tell the full story’ on industry’s Covid response: Huw Evans
The industry should not shy away from the business interruption insurance issue but equally it is not “the be all and end all of the Covid crisis”, according to Huw Evans, director general of the Association of British Insurers.
One Voice Group urges ABI and senior insurance executives to attend talks with 'open minds'
The Association of British Insurers missed the point in its response to a letter from One Voice Group, Stephen Gould, chairman of the hospitality representative body, told Post as he reiterated the call for leadership and engagement.
Interview: Pool Re CEO Julian Enoizi
Pool Re boss Julian Enoizi spoke to Post senior reporter Emmanuel Kenning about Pandemic Re, the Office for National Statistics change in the terrorism reinsurer’s classification and using its funds to pay for business interruption claims in the…
Interview: ABI's Huw Evans on not losing faith in insurance
It clearly is not great for the insurance industry’s reputation “to be in a position where it has so many unhappy customers,” Huw Evans, director general of the Association of British Insurers has admitted.
ABI's Huw Evans talks Pandemic Re possibilities
Market discussions around Pandemic Re options are crucial and serve a "noble purpose", Huw Evans director general of the Association of British Insurers told Post, as he confirmed the trade body is in discussion with Lloyd's and anticipates an invitation…
ABI expects whiplash portal to launch 'beyond' April
Delays to the legislation that will govern the whiplash portal mean it is highly unlikely the portal will launch in April, Association of British Insurers director general Huw Evans projected.
ABI backs Gibraltar government's pitch to British businesses
The Association of British Insurers remains “fully supportive” of the Gibraltarian insurance market and “the choice that it gives UK customers,” ABI director general Huw Evans has said.