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The bottleneck limiting growth for personal lines insurers – Applied Systems
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Social mobility and belonging vital as class-based barriers persist – Zurich UK
Rethinking what an apprentice looks like in today’s insurance industry – Movo Partnership
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In Focus: Talent attraction versus job opportunities – Where is the biggest people pinch point?
While outreach programmes and work experience initiatives are helping to showcase the breadth of insurance careers available, figures show that hiring rates have fallen. So, what is the biggest issue here – attracting young talent or creating enough opportunities for them once they are interested?
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CII awards chartered status to 195 insurance professionals in H1 2026
’We are delighted to see continued growth in the number of individuals who recognise the value in chartered status,’ says president
Markel UK adopts ‘fluid’ approach to talent development to avoid ‘pigeonholing’ – Lee Mooney
Managing director confirms that specialist insurer is investing in all areas of talent development – but despite ‘opening the doors at Markel UK’, supply and demand bottleneck still cranks up competitiveness for entry level roles
Briefing: Spreadsheet Eeyores versus Tigger-ish storytellers
Insurance has been both beset and modernised by the rise of the spreadsheet, but Toby Clegg argues that the quantitative purists have lost sight of qualitative truths in their pursuit of uncompromising accuracy
Briefing: AI will not replace specialist brokers – but it will define the exceptional ones
Lee Anderson, group deputy chief executive at SRG, pinpoints the real differentiator of artificial intelligence use for brokers
Aviva refuses ‘to chase unprofitable’ commercial lines business amid soft market as GWP tumbles 4% in HY results – Jason Storah
‘In a softening market, if you’re chasing top line, it can get you into trouble,’ says UK and Ireland general insurance boss
Charles Bush: Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up
The insurer’s head of commercial claims says that although employees are the ‘most important assets’ within an organisation, they are also ‘one of the points of greatest weakness’
Lee Mooney: Markel UK preparing for ‘next chapter’ after internal restructure
Managing director supports international growth strategy by reshuffling divisional deck to strip siloes and boosting specialist product count
AI-powered insurance shopping already rivalling brokers and telephone enquiries
New data from market research firm Consumer Intelligence suggests that AI has rapidly established itself as a new channel for consumers to shop for cover, already rivalling utilisation rates seen across brokers and telephone enquiries
ETrading enters ‘next phase’ as brokers demand speed and flexibility
Gavin Lillywhite: Breaking the headcount-growth equation
Mark Thomas: The chief executive building a new model for SME insurance growth
Managing complexity and service are the future eTrade battlegrounds
Briefing: The ‘Peace Dividend’ and its insurance equivalent
In Focus: Talent attraction versus job opportunities – Where is the biggest people pinch point?
Charles Bush: Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up
Briefing: Spreadsheet Eeyores versus Tigger-ish storytellers
AI-powered insurance shopping already rivalling brokers and telephone enquiries
Briefing: AI will not replace specialist brokers – but it will define the exceptional ones
ETrading enters ‘next phase’ as brokers demand speed and flexibility
Insurance sector needs to show that it is ‘never too late’ for a second career
Drones set to deliver net risk benefits – but sky-high human error claims costs must be mitigated
Lee Mooney: Markel UK preparing for ‘next chapter’ after internal restructure
Briefing: Getting decisions right starts with trusted data
Barry Reynolds: Verlingue London Markets ‘heavily focused’ on MGA market as it seeks specialist growth
Beyond the promise – what makes ESG meaningful in insurance?
Updated insurance apprenticeship standards attract strong market uptake for ‘more modern approach’
A third of commercial rooftops unfit for solar without remedial work
Michelle O’Reilly: Looking over the add-on sector with a ‘lawyer’s eye’ from Alps
Stuart Heath: Tokio Marine HCC seeks to inject ‘fresh ideas’ with global distribution strategy
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