All Features articles – Page 26
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FeaturesThe climate challenge
Allianz UK chief executive Andrew Torrance chairs ClimateWise, the insurance industry’s initiative on climate change. He tells Ellen Bennett why insurers must do more to prepare the country for extreme weather events, and shares his views on other big issues facing insurers.
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FeaturesIs there a strategy to beat future flooding?
Insurance Times assembled a panel of experts in a public debate on how the industry should respond to the independent review of the response to last summer’s flooding. Lauren MacGillivray reports.
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FeaturesThe profit hunter
Despite the tough economic climate, AXA chief Henri de Castries has kept the company on track to reach its 2012 ambition of tripling its 2004 profits, and he tells Lauren MacGilllivray that he is still keen to make further acquisitions.
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A cure for the PPI stigma
The payment protection insurance market has long had a bad press with allegations of mis-sold policies and the overcharging of customers. Katie Puckett asks whether the Competition Commission’s attempts to remedy this deeply unpopular product will have the desired effect.
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Access all areas
Insurers are engulfed in a multitude of incompatible IT systems that are costly to run and fail to offer what customers want. Michael Herson explains an approach that can change all that.
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FeaturesHome under fire
New research suggests that the service provided by home insurance price comparison sites is failing customers and lagging some way behind the level of the motor aggregators.
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FeaturesGibraltar rocks!
UK insurers are eying Gibraltar as a place to write business across the EU, as they become increasingly frustrated with the UK tax regime. Lauren MacGillivray met key government figures to find out what the territory has to offer.
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A changing attitude to a growing problem
Insurance Times assembled a panel of experts in a public debate on how the industry should tackle the £1.6bn a year plague of insurance fraud.
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FeaturesRunning out of gas?
Insurers are still propping up the UK motor market with reserve releases, but for how much longer? Deloitte insurance partner Catherine Barton analyses the figures.
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Trimming the fat
The final part of our series examining the challenges facing insurance companies looks at the pressure on insurers to cut costs.
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FeaturesStanding up to the deluge
ABI director of general insurance Nick Starling tells Lauren MacGillivray what it’s like to fight the industry’s corner over its handling of last summer’s floods.
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How to stop the brain drain
Firms are becoming increasingly afraid of losing staff to rivals, but Sarah Kennedy has 10 top tips to stop them leaving.
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FeaturesSolvency shake-up
Part two of a three-part series that looks at the challenges facing insurance companies. This week, Michael Faulkner reports on insurers’ preparations for Solvency II, the tough new EU capital regime.
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FeaturesA party for two?
The premium finance market is undergoing rapid change, but will the two big players have it all to themselves?
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