All articles by Ben Dyson – Page 65
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Online onlyGroupama rallies against commercial motor blight
As Groupama UK sale looms, the blot on its 2011 record is a 111% combined ratio
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Online onlySnapshot: mega-brokers’ full-year results
Insurance Times analyses the biggest brokers’ 2011 performance
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Online onlyCanopius eyes brokers as it moves to boost retail
Insurer has deal with Gallagher Heath until it can replace homeowners’ team
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Online onlySnapshot: Listed Lloyd’s firms’ full-year results
Insurance Times takes the temperature of the biggest players in Lloyd’s at the full-year stage
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EC's attack on AIG to defend SII is desperate
The European Commission’s reply to Prudential’s threat to quit the UK over Solvency II won’t win it any friends
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Wednesday: Labour's misjudged take on telematics
Rising motor premiums may be a key concern for the general public, but Labour’s hostile approach to insurers won’t win votes from the industry
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Online onlyLark posts profit ‘rise’ as split from Groupama looms
Year-end 2011 results show profit of £3.6m, almost double 2010’s nine-month figures
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Online onlyGood results could lure buyers to Novae
Lloyd’s insurer’s £7.4m loss is lower than its peers’
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Online onlyJLT bullish as 7.3% organic growth beats Aon, Marsh and Willis
Boss Dominic Burke hits out at competitors’ acceptance of contingent commissions
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Online onlyCrisis-beating investments: a short guide
Insurers’ investment income, already suffering because of low interest rates, faces being hit again when rates rise. How can they cushion the blow?
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Wednesday: Towergate acquisitions set tone for 2012
Buying two regional brokers is a step in the right direction for the consolidator, and it is not the only firm on the M&A trail
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Online onlyInsurers’ strong results belie commercial lines troubles
RBSI, RSE, LV= and Allianz join AXA and Zurich in posting improved 2011 results, but the boost was partly caused by external factors, and commercial lines look grim
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Online onlyIAG UK quietens critics after Equity Red Star turnaround
Australian insurer posts much-improved six-month results, reducing COR to 102.8%
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NewsBeardmore: BMS will acquire to hit growth target
Chief executive stresses that BMS will not sell up
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Online onlyCarl Beardmore, BMS Associates
The BMS chief executive discusses taking on the big guys – and beating them at their own game
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NewsLV=’s O’Roarke: 100% motor CORs a thing of the past
LV= motor profitability now ‘where it needs to be’
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NewsMasojada: Hiscox to strengthen ties with regional brokers
Lloyd’s insurer targeting specialist scheme business in regions
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Thursday: Don’t open the champagne yet
Latest results, led by RBSI and Allianz, show the industry is slowly turning things around. But there is still a way to go
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Online onlyResults Q&A: Ageas UK chief exec Barry Smith
Ageas’s UK boss speaks to Insurance Times about the insurer’s 2011 results
