Marketing
Why Keeping up with Kardashians is vital for marketing insurance
Analysis: Keeping up with Kardashian-like influencers is what it will take for general insurance providers to attract Gen Z to their products and services, writes Tom Luckham.
MGA Review of the Year 2023
With large insurers and mainstream players pulling out of certain lines in 2023, and products reverting to the core areas, MGA chiefs plan to continue to step up and fill that gap in 2024.
Sky Protect appoints MD as Poll moves to chair
Insurance Post can reveal Sky has appointed Paul Sweeney as managing director of Sky Protect, the firm's home insurance brand as Matt Poll, pictured, moves to a non-executive chair role.
D&G’s Chhabra on transforming insurance through data utilisation
View from the top: Vipul Chhabra, chief data and underwriting officer at Domestic & General, looks at how underwriters are using data in new ways.
How AI can transform insurance contact centres
Sat Sanghera, CEO of IPI, explains how artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to revolutionise insurance contact centres, and address several challenges simultaneously.
Scale of insurers’ fight for tech talent laid bare
Data analysis: The amount of competition insurers face in attracting tech talent plus the type of skills providers are hunting for has been revealed by an Insurance Post deep dive into LinkedIn job adverts.
Diary of an Insurer: Genasys’ Gavin Peters
Gavin Peters, chief marketing officer at Genasys Technologies, explores ways to showcase his company's capabilities for the London Market, and accepts his destiny as the Sam Allardyce of the West Herts Youth League.
Arch takes Aon team; Gallagher expands operations; Vision Track’s CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
RSA’s PI product; Jensten’s One Broker deal; GTA names chair
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Many Pets’ £42m loss highlights issues
Many Pets posted a £42m loss for the year to 31 March 2023, on top of the £31m loss for the year before.
Top 75 MGAs: Ripe
Ripe is making M&A part of its growth strategy, which means the business hopes to feature even higher up on future Insurance Post Top 75 MGAs lists.
Steps insurers should take to become inclusive innovators
Analysis: Emma Ann Hughes explores what it will take to create an inclusive insurance industry culture that is capable of producing products and services suitable for a wider cross section of society.
Ripe CEO plans to snap up rivals
Insurtech Ripe has completed its first M&A transaction by acquiring specialist boat insurer Craftinsure, with bosses revealing plans to snap up other rivals.
Q&A: Tim Hardcastle, Instanda
Tim Hardcastle, co-founder and CEO of Instanda, speaks to Frances Stebbing one year after the startup’s latest fundraising round about upcoming trends in the software development industry and how the company is applying AI within the business.
Diary of an Insurer: HSB's Mat Prentice
Mat Prentice, cyber product leader at HSB, navigates 5am starts and studying in the evening while juggling training and presenting on the eve of a well-deserved family holiday.
Specialist Risk Group's latest deal; Animal Friends partners with Costco and Gauntlet joins Brokerbility
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurance PR: FWD Consulting's Elliot Lane
Motivational speaking to teenagers, preparing the industry for the cultural change required by the Consumer Duty, plus cricket chatter makes for an action-packed working week for Elliot Lane, joint managing director of FWD Consulting.
Hiscox achieves tenfold increase in H1 profits
Aki Hussain, group chief executive of Hiscox, has revealed how a decision to preserve capital over the last few years has paid off with bumper profits at the start of 2023.
Former Independent Insurance CEO Bright passes away
Michael Bright, the former CEO of Independent Insurance, has passed away.
Profile: Rodney Bonnard, EY
Rodney Bonnard, head of insurance for EY, chats to Scott McGee about his 30 years in insurance, the “profitability crisis” within personal lines, and how insurers need to be redefined for the future of insurance.
View from the top: Direct Line Group’s Steve Williams on how EVs could change the insurance industry landscape
Steven Williams, head of EV strategy at Direct Line Group, shares his views on how the electrification of the automotive industry could change the insurance landscape and what challenges lies ahead as we move towards the government’s 2030 ban on new…
Rise of the AI insurers
David Worsfold examines can how artificial intelligence can be used to reimagine the insurance experience for customers, transforming it from a transactional, reactive model to a proactive, more personalised one.
Insurtech Lukango seeks to shake up UK SME market with Markel tie-up
Startup Lukango is looking to revolutionise the UK microbusiness market by replicating $4bn insurtech Next's stateside success this side of the Atlantic.
Simplifai’s AI tool; Howden’s telematics app; A-One joins Brokerbility
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.