Insurer Analysis – Page 44
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AgendaAnalysis: Aviva takes gold for 2014 performance
Aviva jumps three places to first place, trumping last year’s winner Admiral, while Ageas brings up the rear with a combined operating ratio just below 100%
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AgendaAnalysis: Insurers have yet to exploit sea of data
The insurer that can exploit the mass of available data to improve customer experience may become a giant, but the industry could yet face threat from ‘internet masters of analytics’ such as Amazon or Google
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Online onlyAnalysis: Five things we learned from the 2014 results
Insurance Times looks at the trends highlighted by the financial performance of the biggest UK general insurance players
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Can a reputation be insured?
While insurers are becoming more innovative at covering reputational damage, the key problem remains defining reputational harm and just what customers need to be covered for
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Online onlyAnalysis: Who is top of the motor growth table?
It was the second year in a row for 2014’s fastest-growing motor brand. But the surge in market growth of direct insurers is a headache for brokers
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AgendaAnalysis: London Market begins fightback to stay top
Between 2012 and 2014 London captured just 0.5% of insurance growth in emerging markets. Now the London Market Group is leading the response to keep the City’s in its world-leading position
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AgendaAnalysis: The verdict on RSA's Stephen Hester one year into his reign
A year after taking over the hot seat, Hester has brought RSA back into the black. But the insurer remains a “work in progress”, analysts say
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AgendaThe Knowledge - Expert View: Underinsurance is a business problem, but a broker opportunity
Adrian McGuire, head of commercial broker property - product underwriting, Zurich Insurance, gives his view of the problem of underinsurance and what brokers can do to tackle it
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AgendaSpecial Report: Careers in Insurance
Whether looking for a new role or your next big hire, this 11-page report tells you all you need to know about the UK insurance jobs market.
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AgendaYear of losses fails to harden aviation market
Even after the recent Malaysian Airlines and AirAsia crises, expected premium rises did not occur and insurance industry experts say high levels of capacity driven by growth will keep market soft
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Underinsurance – Fear of premium hikes leaves clients exposed
Some 80% of survey respondents say underinsurance has become a bigger problem since the economic downturn in 2008 and a similar number believe buyers avoid regular assessments
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Underinsurance – 43% of small businesses lack adequate storm insurance cover
One year on from the floods that hit the UK, many small business remain vulnerable to the winter weather
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Online onlyExpert View: Are you ready for the empowered customer?
Guidewire’s product marketing manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa, on how the insurance industry must meet the demands of the modern consumer
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AgendaInsurers unite as fraudsters switch to commercial lines
Fraudsters have been targeting commercial lines following crackdowns on personal lines crime. Now insurers are taking steps to share data in the hope of preventing commercial fraud exploding
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Online onlyWho is the UK's favourite insurer?
RSA is the most improved motor insurer in customer satisfaction survey, while RAC is biggest faller
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Underinsurance – When cover doesn't meet cost
Being underinsured can be costly for any business when it come to a claim. It falls to brokers to ensure clients have enough cover
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AgendaBattle to control Towergate hots up
With the clock running for Towergate to find a buyer, there is a growing potential for clashes between secured and unsecured bondholders
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Avoiding underinsurance in a buyer’s market
As an improving economy encourages SMEs and homeowners to buy more insurance, they can demand better terms, such as the waiving of condition of average clauses
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Cyber risk market set to boom
Evolving risks such as cyber liability and environmental liability are creating gaps in the insurance market.Deloitte insurance partner Mark Mcllquham says “there are a lot of innovative products that brokers are designing”.“I’ve heard of Ebola protection products coming into the market for instance; the market continues ...
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Online onlyHow the IUA plans to keep the London market relevant in 2015
Chief executive David Matcham lists the trade association’s priorities to Insurance Times’s sister publication GR
