QBE's Richard Pryce on why insurers must innovate for customers and staff
The insurance industry has always been closely connected to the broader economy, but our fortunes are now even more closely tied to macro-economic developments.
Across the world, economic growth prospects have been slowing since the financial crisis, a period which also corresponds to the longest soft market on record. We are not, however, just going through
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