All Agenda articles – Page 14
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AgendaCarrot and Trak Global in telematics deal with Volkswagen
Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) has teamed up with telematics broker Carrot and its sister technology firm Trak Global on a new offering for young drivers. Under the deal, VWFS will offer a year’s free telematics-based insurance to 18-to-24-year-old drivers that buy a Volkswagen Polo from a ...
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AgendaQBE targets Latin American growth with Miami hire
QBE Europe has hired Alfonso De Mares (pictured) as business development manager for Latin America. De Mares will be based in Miami and report to director of overseas business development Tim Harris. Before joining QBE, De Mares was a senior vice-president at reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter ...
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AgendaAnalysis: Consolidators are back – will it be different this time?
The new wave of consolidators is bringing fear of a renewed squeeze on insurers for commissions. But there are signs that the model has changed amid a soft market
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AgendaBriefing: The future is challenging for UK commercial lines insurers
Briefing by Saxon East Can things get any worse for insurers struggling for commercial underwriting profits? In a word, yes. The PRA returns reveal a grim picture: premium fell 19% to £4.4bn, and insurers’ combined operating ratio (COR) worsened to 103.6% in 2015 from 103.4% in ...
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AgendaPRA Returns: Insurers struggle for profit in shrinking market
Only Ageas and AXA reported profitable commercial combined operating ratios, thanks to reserve releases
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AgendaExpert View: Achieving relevance in the digital insurance era
Accenture’s managing director, head of insurance, UK & Ireland, Matthew Hutchins on how insurers need to understand customers’ needs and get better at providing for it in a digital world
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AgendaExpert View: How taming technology can make a broker’s life easier
Willis Towers Watson Networks managing director Sara Fardon on how change offers opportunities that brokers need to seize
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AgendaAllianz was best performer in commercial motor in 2015
Commercial motor was the most profitable line of business in 2015, with three of the seven insurers reporting an underwriting profit. The best performing insurer of the year was Allianz, with a 93.5% COR after releasing reserves that knocked 3.4 percentage points off its current year ...
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AgendaWho to see and what they’re saying at Biba – part 1
In the run-up to Biba 2016, we look at some of the big names set to make an appearance and their agendas
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AgendaQ&A: Amanda Blanc on innovation: 'execution is better than strategy'
With the Insurance Times Innovation and Disruption conference taking place on Monday, one of the key speakers on the day, AXA UK and Ireland general insurance chief executive Amanda Blanc, spoke to Martin Kornacki about insurance innovation.
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AgendaQ&A with Matt Poll of insurtech firm Neos
Matt Poll, chief executive and founder of Neos explains why he set up the insurtech firm after 15 years in the insurance industry and how he believes it will open up a better dialogue and relationship between insurers and customers
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AgendaInnovation blog: Diversity hits the bottom line
Let’s make 2016 the year for action on diversity, urges Dominic Christian, chief executive of Aon UK and chair of Inclusion@Lloyd’s
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AgendaInnovation blog: 'Our job is not to explain the past, but to give you a guide to the future'
Dr Will Pettigrew and Dr Edmond Smith of Kent University’s Centre for the Study of the Political Economies of International Commerce (PEIC) explain how they plan to use pioneering research techniques to map the future of innovation in insurance
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AgendaInnovation blog: Work with start-ups, not against them
Kathy Yu of KPMG’s high growth technology group argues corporates need to follow in Google’s footsteps and embrace the ’soul, passion and speed’ of start-ups
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AgendaAnalysis: Turning data into digital gold
Data and analytics are key to the future of companies working in the insurance sector. The connected car and home and wearable devices offer a technological edge to insurers
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AgendaExpert View: Customer-centricity is key to broker survival
LV= Broker managing director LV= Broker on why brokers need to listen to customer needs and adapt their service to suit
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AgendaExpert View: supporting brokers in the face of growing consolidation
Aviva’s head of regional brokers, strategy and propositions, Karen Jackman talks about the help insurers can give smaller brokers
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AgendaAnalysis: Is there a future for the High Street broker in the digital age?
It was a proud day for Hughes Insurance. One-man band Leslie Hughes started selling car insurance over the phone in 1977 and grew the company into Northern Ireland’s largest independent broker by the time it was acquired in 2014 by Liberty Mutual. Chief executive Gareth Brady ...
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AgendaExpert View: Underwriters need new tools for a data age
Guidewire market strategy director, data and analytics, Dawn Mortimer on why underwriters need help to make sense of Big Data