Opinion
Understanding underwriting
Future insurance market performance rests firmly on its ability to put the science back into underwriting. Michael Barber explains
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Rising to the challenge of new entrants
In a fast-moving business world, maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage is a relentless pur...
FSA addresses confusion over its rules
It seems that in our desire to be open and transparent in our decision making, we at the Financial S...
Branding seminar on the London market
Branding in the London market is the subject of an expert interactive seminar for insurance professi...
Proceed with caution
Careful long-term planning is essential to ensure the success of the government's proposal to build 200,000 homes in the South-east, says Dr Sebastian Catovsky
More than a remote possibility
Offshoring Comment
Spitzer negligible - so far
If the results of Aon and Willis are taken as a good barometer, the effect of Eliot Spitzer's invest...
CSC future hangs in balance over 'cold calling' concerns
Last week's meeting of the Claims Standards Council appears to have raised as many questions as it a...
Is risk finally on the boardroom agenda?
We have all heard people within the insurance business musing on the question of whether risk has sc...
ABI looks again to Whitehall for Francis successor
And with no great surprise, the Association of British Insurers unveiled its new director general la...
BTE is best left to the insurers
Neil Sugarman is right to highlight the proposed change to the financial threshold at which small pe...
Directive report system applies only to the police
I would like to comment on the article about the Fifth Motor Directive ('Directive could raise compe...
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Six years ago
Looking back
ABI needs to make voice heard
It will be interesting to see if the government takes heed of the latest warning from the Associatio...
Injury claim issues need addressing
One or two crucial issues are being overlooked in the current debate about the possibility of the fi...
Eight years ago
Looking back
Who will make the first move?
Once again rates are the talking point of the insurance industry but I don't remember such a conflic...
FSA transfer rules reflect the DMD
With regards to the issue of block transfers ('NU attacks FSA over rules', PM, 20 January, p1), the ...
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How clean is your personal injury cover?
The news that Italian housewives, maids and cleaners are being made to take out personal injury insu...
Customers should be able to walk away
I fail to understand why customers who are unhappy with a block transfer should not have the right t...
The long-term strategy is still key
Henry Keeling sees the newcomers from the hedge fund world as conferring respectability on the reinsurance industry