Regulation
Seminar at CGU headquarters.
Over 100 insurers, charities, local authorities and academics attended a seminar at CGU headquarters...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny Black wonders if the deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers, Tony Bake...
Hewitt tries to calm FSA fears.
Economic Secretary Patricia Hewitt has moved to allay fears surrounding the accountability of the Fi...
Reasons to be cheerful ...
The annual Post Magazine conference saw industry experts outline the huge opportunities, rather than problems, facing insurers as they enter the millennium. David Worsfold, Anthony Gould and Francis Higney report.
Providers stare into the abyss.
Concern is mounting over the looming void in pensions provision while we wait for the present regime...
Sunny side up.
Broker transparency - 'operating in the sunshine' - has been top of the agenda for risk managers for the last year. Anthony Gould reports on the latest advances.
Euro review of employment laws.
The European Court of Justice has preliminary ruled on questions relating to an application for a ju...
Tobacco firms' joy at jury's decision.
US tobacco company insurers were celebrating last week after a jury dismissed all charges relating t...
Card cover wrangle.
A taxpayer offered credit card holders, on payment of a sum, a plan to protect them against financia...
Eurobase eases maintainence load.
Eurobase has unveiled business application software designed to allow companies to outsource the sup...
Show and tell.
The Life Insurance Association has recommended its members show only one set of qualifications on th...
Pensions: a case of too many cooks.
The government's well-intentioned pensions reform has become stuck in a mire of confusion. Francis Higney asks if it has become a case of too much, too soon.
FSA committee limits scope.
The select committee examining the Financial Services and Markets Bill has set itself a six-point ag...
Broker acts on transparency.
Brokers have been urged to follow Aon Risk Services' example and adopt a code of conduct over busine...
FSA extends reach of fines.
Individuals operating in the Lloyd's market could be hit by fines issued by the Financial Services A...
GISC must show that change is not to be feared.
The General Insurance Standards Council has made a clever choice for its first chief executive in pi...
Farr out.
Essex based broker FMW has dumped founder and former chief executive Kevin Farr for "not complying w...
Easy passage for bancassurance Bill.
A compromise Bill which would enable banks and insurers to engage in each others' business has been ...
Free debate on insurer/insured balance.
This year's Post Magazine Insurance and Law Debate, being held on 20 May, will address the motion: "...
Brokers to be quids in.
Personal lines brokers can look forward to an increase in profits following the news that software h...
Allstate in deal with March McLennan.
US Insurer Allstate has entered into a joint venture with Marsh & McLennan's Boston-based subsidiary...
Surprise boost for Lloyd's Names.
Lloyd's Names got an unexpected boost in the Budget with a simplification of Capital Gains Tax rules...
Profits up by £38m.
Finnish insurer the Sampo Group reported operating profit of £144m for 1998 - an increase of £38m ov...
Friends' pension.
Friends Provident has teamed up with investment distributor Hargreaves Lansdown to launch a pension ...