All Features articles – Page 30
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FeaturesBrokers move online as micro-business dries up
The micro end of the SME market is set to fall away but brokers are more optimistic about small and medium sized firms. Newsquest Specialist Media’s head of research Peter Joy outlines the findings of an exclusive survey.
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A sea change in the stormy SME market
With the upheaval in the SME market, how can brokers adapt and prosper? Helen Groom reports.
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Cut out of the market
The direct insurers are using their money and marketing might to target the SME sector. But Ann Hesketh asks if brokers should be concerned.
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FeaturesJust who are you calling a loss adjuster?
The traditional UK loss adjusting market is shrinking, forcing the major players to evolve. Insurance Times talked to the top five firms about the future.
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FeaturesRinging up more cost
Brokers are facing £1m in phone charges because they have to call their insurer partners on expensive 0870 numbers. Sarah Kennedy investigates.
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FeaturesSearching your way to the top
Helen Groom looks at the intense competition over internet search rankings and asks how the search engines are trying to stop companies fixing
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FeaturesThe fight to attract graduate recruits
The insurance industry seems to be losing ground in the battle for graduates, but can it learn from the accountancy firms? Anne Hesketh reports
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Underpaid and unrewarded: employees find their voice
Insurance Times’ and Hays’ salary survey has revealed just what employees think about their jobs, prospects and the industry itself. Ellen Bennett reports
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FeaturesZurich’s view of the future
Following the release of Zurich’s 2007 UK results, which revealed flat premiums of £2.06bn, flood-hit profits of £91m and a combined operating ratio of 104.8%, Tom Flack asked chief executive Guy Munnoch 12 key questions.
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FeaturesA place in the sun
As Hardy redomiciles to Bermuda, James Dean talks to chief executive Barbara Merry about a career of impressive achievements.
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Record number of PPI complaints to ombudsman
Payment protection cover becomes most unpopular insurance product
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FeaturesUp the ladder
Ian Martin of Martin Insurance Services talks to Chris Wheal about his career
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Patching up the PMI market
Product development and pricing have helped to boost private medical insurance, but insurers are cautious. Michael Faulkner and Ellen Bennett report
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Suspicious minds
As the world of broking gets ever more cut throat, employers will stop at nothing to stop former staffers walking out the door with company secrets. An Insurance Times investigation has uncovered the widespread use of private detectives, and legal fees spiralling into tens of millions. Danny Walkinshaw reports
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FeaturesWill takaful take off?
The Archbishop of Canterbury has courted controversy with his suggestion that the UK could sanction some aspects of Sharia law, but the insurance industry is already one step ahead. Sarah Kennedy explains how
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FeaturesWeblog
The news that the world’s largest insurer, AIG, revised its sub-prime write-down from $1bn to almost $5bn stoked fears in the market that the global credit crisis had spilled over at last into the general insurance sector.The company’s market cap slide of $14bn – hastened by auditor PricewaterhouseCooper’s diagnosis that ...