All Features articles – Page 68
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Competent Training
With compliance training high on most firms' agendas, there are many high quality courses available – but at the other end of the scale, beware of the quick sign off, says Waltham Pitglow
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Peter Cullum: Viewpoint
New research shows 30% of SMEs would buy direct. Folgate's Peter Cullum argues that brokers can only win through by offering unbeatable value
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Kidnap under wraps
Premiums for kidnap and ransom insurance are skyrocketing, with contractors working in Iraq becoming major targets. But the government is refusing to step in and companies are reluctant to discuss the danger they are sending their employees into. James Sullivan reports
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Welcome to the melting pot
This year's AIRMIC conference looks set to be one of the best attended for years. David Gamble, the association's executive director, explains
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The question puzzling applicants
Firms applying for authorisation are getting stuck at the question relating to client money. Alex Peterkin explains your options
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Riskwatch AtoZ
The management of risk is fundamental to insurers. But the industry has been caught out by the development of new risks, which it has either failed to identify, or not properly damaged. Mark Hynes explains a number of emerging risks
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Audience Reaction
THIS WEEK WE are going to finally decide the best methods of getting our information across to our audience, using the methods (or at least, some of them) that we examined last week.
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Interview: Patrick Smith
Hill House Hammond is going but so is AXA Direct. The message, according to Swinton chief executive Patrick Smith, is not that the high street broker is dead, but that two businesses that couldn't cut it have died, a truism rather than a trend.
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Choice of Delivery
Continuing our series of designing training programmes, Kate Foreman reviews the types of training methods
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Liberty launches service company
Non-Lloyd's brokers can now access Liberty Syndicate capacity through a new service company.Liberty Syndicate Services Limited (LSSL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Sysndicates, has been gr …
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£1.4m horse row climax
Brit, Hiscox and Catlin locked in battle with bloodstock company over stallion's infertility
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Cover for art's sake
Stolen condoms, decomposing carcasses and protesting vandals. Providing cover for modern 4art can pose some tricky problems.
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Insurers back plastic
Credit card insurers are unconcerned about the new PIN and chip technology. Francis Higney explains why
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Win a BlackBerry
Insurance Times has teamed up with Isis Telecommunications, to give away two BlackBerry remote email devices.
