High Five: Catch up on the biggest exclusive stories this week

Starting off the week, editor Katie Scott spoke to Ant Middle about Ageas UK’s organic growth plan.

• Ant Middle: Organic growth focused plan seeks to put Ageas UK top of the personal lines pile

Then, Jon Guy discussed the launch of a new executive MBA in Islamic insurance and risk management.

• Will MBA be catalyst to UK Islamic insurance momentum?

Following this, data reporter George McDade highlighted data that shows half of brokers consider the regulatory environment in the UK insurance market ‘too restrictive’.

• Nearly half of brokers consider the regulatory environment in the UK insurance market ‘too restrictive’

After that, Scott revealed that Ageas UK is currently investigating how it can distribute its products via embedded propositions.

• Ageas UK is ‘very interested’ in embedded insurance – Ant Middle

Rounding off the week, Scott got Allianz’s view on inflation and the transition from a hard to soft market in UKGI.

• Allianz UK focuses on ‘balance between volume and margin’ to weather cyclical market storm