The Voice of Insurance
The Voice of Insurance features in-depth interviews with top executives in the global (re)insurance industry, providing insights into the latest trends and developments.
Episodes
Ep320 Mark Groenheide LIRG: Facts, Not Feelings
Today’s podcast is one of the most fast-moving and broad-ranging I have recorded in seven years of the Voice of Insurance.
For instance, today’s guest links running an insurer on Native AI infrastructure, Takaful insurance and the application of parametric insurance to almost every peril, with ambitions to grow his own reinsurance balance sheet and a medium-term goal to return to the Lloyd’s marke
Ep319 Richard Brindle & Richard Coulson The Fidelis Partnership: Darwinian Division
Today’s podcast was recorded down at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous at the beginning of September.
This extraordinary gathering of global insurance leadership is great place to secure time with senior executives from all around the world.
I am really glad and feel very lucky that Richard Brindle, Group CEO and Chairman of The Fidelis Partnership, has managed to find time for the Voice of Insurance
Ep318 Jack Kuhn Westfield Specialty: Taking the long-term view
Today’s guest is an insurance professional who has just completed forty years in the market.
Over that time he has built a reputation as the consummate underwriter’s underwriter.
But by some strange coincidence our paths hadn’t crossed – until now.
We can complain about Monte Carlo all we want but it never fails to throw up wonderful opportunities to meet the most senior and prestigious figures
SpEp The State of (Re)insurance 2026
Welcome to the fifth Episode of its kind, documenting the 2026 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous on your behalf.
The first in 2022 foretold a historic, chaotic and dramatic hard-market renewal. At the next, stability and a return to orderliness was craved, and was granted. The year after that, animal spirits started to be talked of in hushed tones. Last year, the industry had its mojo well and truly back.
T
Ep317 Jason Keen CEO Wholesale & Specialty Everest Insurance: No time to be stuck in the middle
Today’s podcast is a really strong conversation with someone in a significant strategic position within the global Facultative reinsurance, Wholesale and Specialty market.
That’s because across 26 business lines, with platforms in the US, London and Singapore they run a business that is closing in on $4bn in Gross written premium in 2026.
Jason Keen is the CEO of Global Wholesale and Specialty a
Ep316 Waleed Jabsheh CEO IGI: Don't tie your hands
There’s a lot of received wisdom in our industry.
You know, the sorts of things that we tell each other often enough that we all begin to accept them as true without really questioning the assumptions behind them with rigour.
Here are three common ones: you have to have meaningful scale if you want to get involved in Reinsurance, or open up operations in the London Market or the US.
This podcas
Ep315 Clemens Jungsthöfel, CEO Hannover Re: It still feels like a speedboat
Today’s podcast is with someone who has one of the biggest and most important and influential jobs in our industry, yet you wouldn’t necessarily know that if you spoke to him.
As the CEO of Hannover Re Clemens Jungsthöfel may be carrying a very large reinsurance stick, but he speaks very softly.
He is approachable and someone who inspires trust. You get the feeling you could tell him anything, o
Ep314 George Beattie Head of Innovation & Chris Mullan Head of Data & AI CFC: Choose your adventure
Over the past couple of years we’ve been talking a lot about the potential applications of AI in insurance and where in the value chain it is going to make the best impact.
But what we haven’t done is follow the logic further and start to look into the medium term consequences for the industry.
This is why what follows is so interesting. My conversation with George Beattie (pictured, Left), Head
Ep313 Mikir Shah CEO Africa Specialty Risks: Creating new Markets
This podcast was a really satisfying one to make because it is unrelentingly positive in its outlook and highlights how insurance can underwrite its own sustainable growth by being in the right place at the right time.
The promise of Africa is alluring - 54 countries, a vast land mass with huge untapped resources, a young population, growing trade that is now freeing up and massive potential econo
Ep312 Clyde Bernstein, Placement Tech Leader Aon: Get the plumbing right
Most episodes of this podcast deal with the here and now, the day-to-day cut and thrust of what is going on in the market.
This podcast is completely different because it gives us a view into the future of broking.
Clyde Bernstein is the Placement Technology & Trading Analytics Leader at Aon and in the first half of this podcast we examine the global broker’s new Digital Placement Exchange (
Ep311 Richard Brindle Group CEO TFP & Clive Washbourn CEO Navium: Being Brave
Today’s Episode is one of those interviews that give you a warm feeling of anticipation when you get it in the diary, then when you’re researching and preparing the questions, you’re really looking forward to it, and finally the recording itself session happens and it goes even better than you hoped.
Now a couple of weeks later I have just listened back and I’m still smiling because this is somet
SpEp Will Ross, CEO Federato: Respecting the Problem of Insurance
Today’s podcast is a rare encounter with someone looking to revolutionise the insurance industry from its core.
We are at one of those generational moments when a big tech question is right at the top of the board agenda in almost every industry sector in the world. That question is AI.
Insurance is no different.
As AI moves from the experimentation phase to the delivery phase, insurance busine
Ep310 Dan Burrows Group CEO Pelagos: Very few people get to see the whole market
Today’s guest has a job that is almost unique in the global insurance industry.
That’s because his organisation has been formed through a unique exercise that split a standard insurance company into an MGA in charge of underwriting and a balance sheet in charge of allocating capital to risk.
All this means that Dan Burrows, Group CEO Pelagos Insurance Capital, is probably the only pure capital al
Ep309 Tim Gardner CEO & Bob Bisset CEO NA, Lockton Re: Feeding the Furnace for Growth
Today’s Episode is a catch-up with two reinsurance brokers back on the podcast after an absence of over two-and-a-half years.
That’s long enough for most guests, but for an executive team that has been building out a Reinsurance broking operation in earnest for only a little longer than this podcast has been in existence, it’s an age.
Since we last spoke Tim Gardner Global CEO, and Bob Bisset, CE
Ep308 Stephanie Ogden, Munich Re Syndicate: Balancing Realism and Ambition
I’m really happy about today’s podcast and that’s because today’s guest is a shining example of a new, very well-prepared generation of leaders that is coming through the ranks in the international insurance sector.
With senior roles in the company market and inside Lloyd’s itself Stephanie Ogden was already well-rounded before she took on her current role as the CEO of the Munich Re Syndicate at
SpEp Helen Sanson CEO The Insurance Charity: Insurance for Insurance people
Everyone who works in the Insurance Industry knows it is a great business.
The great cliché is that people fall into the sector via all sorts of roundabout routes and then they stay. They rarely pick the industry as a first choice.
But once in there are many amazing benefits that take new entrants by surprise. In the UK the vibrant national and regional professional communities facilitated by a
Ep307 Alistair Lester, CEO Private Equity & M&A EMEA, Gallagher: Industrialising M&A Insurance
Today’s podcast is a masterclass with an expert in a class of business that has exploded with growth over the past decade.
M&A insurance is a broad church that holds a large number of products that are all related to inter-company transactions.
Representations and Warranties, potential tax liabilities, litigation risk and other contingencies related to M&A are the subject of this incredi
Ep306 James Hands Group CEO Miller: Specialty with Scale
It’s been three years since today’s guest has been on the show.
In that time the business he runs has doubled in size through a combination of organic growth and targeted acquisitions.
Group CEO of Miller Insurance Services, James Hands, is looking for growth at a similar pace for the next three years and this interview is an excellent 360-degree guide to how he plans to achieve his goals.
A foc
Ep305 James Brady & Tom King of Hiscox: FloodPlus ten years on
In insurance we usually spend a lot more time talking about innovation than we end up doing it.
So this podcast focuses on two of the do-ers putting innovation into practice.
It’s now ten years since Hiscox launched its market-first, tech-enabled, live quote and bind FloodPlus product and this Episode examines the story of that product’s development and its growth into a market opportunity that
Ep304 Andrew Johnston Gallagher Re: AI will come to its own rescue
Today’s podcast is one of those conversations that stretched my ability to keep up with my interviewee to the limit.
Andrew Johnston is the Global Head of Insurtech at Gallagher Re and has been at the forefront of understanding and chronicling the Insurtech phenomenon since it emerged over ten years ago.
Gallagher Re’s quarterly reports on the topic have been required reading over the past decad
Ep303 Will Bridger Compre: Beyond traditional Legacy
In insurance we love to divide ourselves into different mutually-exclusive tribes.
Life and non-life, property and casualty, marine and non-marine. Long and short tail Traditional balance sheet reinsurance and Insurance-Linked Securities.
And not forgetting - live and legacy.
But the fact is that as the global insurance ecosystem becomes more sophisticated there are really only two major differe
Ep302 Nick Hankin QBE Re: Avoiding surprises
Today’s guest is running a global reinsurer with bold ambitions to double in size over the next five years.
Nick Hankin is Managing Director of QBE Re. Now into his fourth decade in insurance and reinsurance, Nick has market experience in abundance, so when, despite the recent relatively rapid softening in the reinsurance market at the most recent renewals, he says he still sees plenty of opportu
Ep301 Alfonso Valera CEO International Aon Re: Everyone is chasing growth
I first met today’s guest just under 34 years ago on my first day at work in the London Market.
Back then Alfonso Valera and I worked in the London-based Lloyd’s subsidiary of the biggest broker in Spain. Alfonso was my senior and had already been in post for a year and patiently helped show me the ropes.
He spoke perfect English, was a confident, skilful and forceful negotiator who was incredibl
Ep300 Patrick Tiernan CEO Lloyd's: "Why Not Lloyd's?"
Patrick Tiernan has come into the CEO role at Lloyd’s with the market brimming with confidence after a third successive year of strong profitability.
Now that competitive forces are reasserting themselves with renewed vigour, the question is what next?
From this meeting the future at Lloyd’s is one full of increased velocity and innovation in all things. New leadership, new forms of underwriting
Ep299 Dan Topping CEO B.P. Marsh: Small begets Big, Big begets Small
The great cliché about our sector is that while business trends come and go – it’s the people who remain the constant.
Today’s guest is someone whose business follows this philosophy to the letter. Dan Topping is the CEO of London-focused, publicly-listed private equity firm B.P. Marsh with just under 20 years in the business.
The firm he leads is a household name in the London Market with a 30-
Ep298 Tessa Wardle QBE Portfolio Solutions: Indexing the Market
The growth of the portfolio solutions segment of the market has been one of the most exciting and interesting developments in global insurance in the past five years.
The streamlining of placements in syndicated insurance markets is producing scale, speed efficiency and cost benefits for underwriters, brokers and their clients alike. And this is a phenomenon that is really only just getting into
Ep297 Scott Egan CEO SiriusPoint: If you fall asleep, you go backwards
Todays’ podcast with Scott Egan is a tour de force.
I think there are various reasons for that.
The first is that whereas when we first spoke in 2023, Scott was relatively new in the CEO role at SiriusPoint and his strategy hadn’t had time to bed in and take full effect, now we were speaking after a year when the business had posted another set of consistently strong results and any talk of a tu
Ep296 Ivan Gonzalez CEO Swiss Re Corporate Solutions: Our strategic priority is to lead
Today’s guest is the CEO of an $8bn GWP global insurance business.
Ivan Gonzalez has spent 25 years travelling the world within the Swiss Re organisation, from his native Colombia to New York and China. He now runs Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.
After undergoing a turnaround process a few years ago this is an organisation that has regained its strategic direction and confidence and is now posting
Ep295 Richard Milner CEO Chaucer Group: Let's do what we're good at
Today’s guest is Richard Milner, CEO of Chaucer Group.
Chaucer is a global specialty insurance and reinsurance institution with a great pedigree and significant scale, both inside and outside the Lloyd’s market.
Richard is coming up for two years in post as CEO and is beginning to make his mark on the business’s long-term strategy.
Richard has had the sort of underwriting career that makes him
Ep294 Sean McGovern LMA Chair: Building the market of the Future
Today’s guest is one of the best qualified people in the London Market.
In a thirty-year career he has been a senior executive right at the top of Lloyd’s and has either chaired or sat on the board of almost all the institutions that underpin the market and represent it to the outside world.
Today Sean McGovern is the CEO of UK & Lloyd’s at AXA XL and has just taken over the Chairmanship of
Ep293 Mark Christer CEO Wakam UK: Fixated on Velocity
As regular listeners will know, the Voice of Insurance usually interviews people from the global wholesale, speciality insurance and reinsurance end of the market, insuring the type of risks that tend to have to cross borders to find the right type of coverage.
Today’s podcast is a slight departure from the norm because I am talking to someone who is working in the general insurance space in the
Ep292 Miguel Rosa CEO Mapfre Re: Write the Client
Today’s podcast is with the CEO of a reinsurer that wrote just under $8 billion dollars of Gross premiums in 2025.
Miguel Rosa runs Mapfre Re, a Global Top-20 reinsurer with a reputation for long-term strategic thinking and consistency in an often unstable market.
As the reinsurance market softens, at a significantly faster rate than many reinsurers were expecting, it is fascinating to hear Migu
Ep291 Jonathan Tritton MD Burns & Wilcox Global Solutions: Seeking Harmony in the Value Chain
I really enjoyed today’s interview because it outlines what is quite an original proposition in a very competitive marketplace.
Jonathan Tritton is the Managing Director of Burns & Wilcox Global Solutions, which is the London and International wholesale broking arm of the US-headquartered Kaufman Group.
The group has been formed via the coming together of the Chesterfield and Lochain Patrick
Ep290 Jacqui Ferrier CEO Carbon Underwriting: Sorting Wheat from Chaff
Today’s podcast is all about catching up with a business that was last on the show five years ago.
And we’ve got an awful lot of catching up to do. Back then Carbon Underwriting was on the show because it was one of the first crop of Syndicates in a Box at Lloyd’s, laying out interesting ideas on how to modernise and optimise the underwriting of delegated authority business.
Now it has matured int
Ep289 The Rt Hon. The Lady Mayor, Dame Susan Langley, DBE: Speaking Truth to Power
Today’s podcast is a first for the Voice of Insurance as this is the first time I have had an interview with a sitting Lady Mayor of London.
Sue Langley or, the Right Honourable, the Lady Mayor, Dame Susan Langley, DBE, to give her her full and formal title, has worked in the insurance industry for 28 years, with senior roles at Hiscox, within the Corporation of Lloyd’s and latterly as Chair of t
Ep288 Gabriel Holschneider, XS Global: Reinvesting every dollar to compound growth
Today’s episode is unique because my guest is pretty unique.
Gabriel Holschneider was working as a lawyer 20 years ago when he uncovered a passion for, and an obsession with, captive insurance and started a consultancy and a very small reinsurer with his own money.
Then ten years ago he founded an MGA group called XS Global.
In 2026 that group is the biggest MGA in Latin America, is fully globa
Sp Ep Beazley Predictions: Exploring the risks shaping 2026 and beyond
When the well-known banker J.P. Morgan was asked by a reporter to predict the future of the stock market, he gave this now-famous three-word reply: “It will fluctuate”.
Here was someone wise enough to know that making predictions is a hazardous occupation at the best of times, and doubly so if those predictions relate to often fragile and volatile financial markets.
But what the evasive and inscr
Ep287 Nick Abraham, Amwins Global Risks: A focus on Specialism
As the global insurance market becomes more competitive, the first place to notice the change is usually the wholesale segment, because it’s always at the margins where all the most dynamic pricing action occurs.
But whilst falling rates can prove a headwind to growth, as long as submission flows hold up and deals keep being done a more competitive market can be a more attractive one for new busi
Ep286 Terry McLean SageSure: Go to where there is margin
I interview all sorts of people on this podcast but today’s guest is a candidate for one of the most exceptional entrepreneurs to have come on the programme to date.
Most people have the talent, a lot of people have the instincts and the drive, but few can combine that with the breadth of knowledge and ability to connect up the insurance value chain all the way from a homeowner right up to the mo
Ep285 William Pitt, FASE: Bringing local European MGA expertise and Global Capacity together
Todays’ guest has done something that only happens once in a generation. He’s helped found a new insurance industry trade body.
Most insurance trade groupings tend to feel as if they have been around forever. Rightly so, because in various shapes or forms most of them have.
New bodies only tend to be born because something has changed in the market that requires them to come into existence.
Her
Ep284 Lara Mowery Gallagher Re: A Good place to be, but a difficult one to hold
Today’s podcast forms the second and final update on the fascinating 1.1 reinsurance renewals we have just been through.
Whereas Episode 283 with David Flandro was all about delivering a high-level analysis of the global macro picture, this one is designed to focus in on detailed market specifics from a reinsurance broker’s perspective.
For that we need a broker of great renown and great experie
Ep283 David Flandro Howden Re: Moving on from Vintage years, but nowhere near the floor
Most of the time most of the people working in insurance and reinsurance are way too busy doing their jobs to stop and think and engage with the big ideas that are driving the markets they operate in.
One of the great luxuries of being a journalist is that it is our day job to talk to the people with the big ideas and report back to you.
And these days with the podcast medium you get to be right
Sp Ep: Insuring the Trillion Dollar Data Boom
Our industry is a mature one and because of that, growth stories are highly valuable.
So today, we're looking deeply into the best growth opportunity for insurance in decades.
And to that end we are going to examine an industry experiencing exponential growth and looking to multiply the amount of capital that it deploys tenfold over the next five years.
We are of course talking about data centres.
Ep282 Cathal Carr, Oak Global: Building a New Reinsurer at Lloyd's
As an insurance journalist, sometimes I think we in our profession must be a leading indicator for the industry. When we are breaking news it certainly feels that way.
But at other times it often feels like we are a lagging indicator.
Today’s podcast is a case in point. From about 6 years ago the insurance media picked up on a long-term trend and told its story. The story was that transacting re
Ep281 Simon Wilson, Markel: Rediscovering a Founder's Mentality
Listening back this is an almost breathless podcast. But what’s remarkable is that it should be breathless for just under an hour.
Markel Insurance has been through enormous strategic changes in 2025 and its CEO Simon Wilson has been at the heart of them.
The reinsurance business has been exited and management structures streamlined.
Now that the heavy lifting has been done this podcast outline
Ep280 Luis Prato Liberty Specialty Markets: You have to Outperform
Today’s guest is a living example of the London Market being a place where global talent can come and enjoy a varied and fulfilling career that doesn’t have a glass ceiling.
He arrived in London over thirty years ago as a risk engineer and now oversees insurance businesses writing over $2.5 billion in premiums and employing around 400 people.
Luis Prato is President of Liberty Specialty Markets i
Ep279 Greg Hendrick, Vantage: A Labour of Love
It’s great to have a guest of the calibre of Greg Hendrick CEO of Vantage back on the show, not least because his relatively new and young businesses is still growing fast and there is a lot to catch up on.
Now five years old Vantage is set to write around $1.6bn in gross insurance and specialty reinsurance premiums and is managing $1.5bn in ILS funds.
But listening back it’s the quality and brea
Ep278 Jeff Radke Accelerant: Speed matters
Today’s guest is someone who is running a business that is moving so fast that every time he comes back on the show we have an enormous amount to talk about and this time it is no different.
Today Jeff Radke CEO of Accelerant is talking to me after a transformational 12 months that has seen his young business continue its heightened growth and IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
At the Voice of In
Ep277 Andre Finn Intellegri: Applying the Big Hypothesis Model to insurance
Welcome to a really exciting re-encounter with someone who has been out of our industry for some years but is now back with a highly original new proposition.
In my line of work I get to see an awful lot of new insurance ideas and so it takes a lot to fire up my imagination.
And when I talk to people on this podcast about those new ideas – often the new product niche or service they are looking a
Ep276 Pina Albo CEO Hamilton: Leaning in and out
Today’s guest is making a highly welcome return to the show after a four-year absence.
Since we last spoke the fortunes of the market have been transformed, her company has matured and floated successfully on the New York Stock Exchange and has had its Insurer Financial Strength rating upgraded to A by AM Best.
All this means that CEO of Hamilton Insurance Group, Pina Albo and I had an awful lot
Ep275 Christopher Croft, LIIBA: Where Innovation Happens
At first glance, today’s guest might have an unenviable job.
That’s because that job entails trying to find the common ground between the hundreds of Lloyd’s brokers, some of whom are extremely large and very many of whom are very small and very specialist indeed.
Christopher Croft, the CEO of the London & International Insurance Brokers’ Association (LIIBA)is someone who I see and meet const
Ep274 Tim Ronda CEO Howden Re: The System is Working
Todays’ Episode was a joy to make.
It was a face-to-face meeting that crackled from the moment my interviewee walked through the door and shook my hand all the way through to a swift exit to a pressing engagement.
As I was tidying cables and packing away my microphones into their case, I already knew this was going to be a really strong Episode. Now that I’ve had a listen back for the final run-
Ep273 Andrew Robinson Skyward Specialty & David Ibeson Apollo: So many opportunities, we have to filter them
I really enjoyed recording today’s episode because both my guests have been on the show before and that always makes getting a conversation going much easier.
And to make the session even more lively, we had something really interesting to discuss. Andrew Robinson’s Skyward Specialty has just entered into an agreement to buy David Ibeson’s Apollo.
In M&A the parties often talk about a combine
Ep272 Tony Ursano & Joe Plumeri: The M&A Continuum
This episode is a very special one because, thanks to one of my guests, we are going to hear from somebody who I assumed I had missed my chance of getting to appear on this podcast.
Let me explain. Tony Ursano of Insurance Advisory Partners is someone I have interviewed many times over the past 20 years. In fact I first met Tony when he was working at Willis during the thirteen-year reign of our s
Ep271 Dave Paulsson MS Transverse: Fulfilling demand for outperformance
The growth in Hybrid Fronting carriers has been explosive in the past seven years and this growth has both been fuelled by, and has helped feed, a parallel explosion in the formation of MGAs and the rise in commercial insurance distribution outside the Admitted Lines market.
Today’s guest is one of the first movers in this relatively novel insurance carrier type and co-founded the business that is
Sp Ep Matt Hicks Co-Founder Recorder: The Best People want the Best Tools
I often wonder if we in the insurance industry have any idea how lucky we are that there are so many smart people out there looking to help make the way we do business easier, more efficient, more productive and ultimately, more profitable.
Today’s guest, Matt Hicks, is one of these people.
Matt is the co-founder of Recorder, a next-generation broker management system that connects producers d
Sp Ep The State of (Re)insurance 2025
Welcome to a Special Documentary Episode of The Voice of Insurance podcast Produced in association with Stephens Rickard
This is the fourth episode of its kind.
The first saw a historic, chaotic, dramatic hard market renewal unfold, at the next stability and a return to orderliness was craved - and was granted.
Last year animal spirits started to be talked of in hushed tones, but it was too early
Ep270 Ken Reilly Sompo: Capturing growth
The transformation of major Japanese insurers into genuinely global insurers has been one of the most remarkable long-term changes of the last couple of decades.
Today’s guest is an embodiment of that internationalisation.
Ken Reilly is CEO of Insurance for Sompo in Asia Pacific but boasts a 30-year international career that has seen him work in New York, London, Bermuda and Tokyo.
Ken now spli
Ep269 Richard Brindle & John-Paul O'Hare The Fidelis Partnership: A Multi-Platform Risk Allocator
Every year for the past four years I have been lucky enough to be given time with Richard Brindle at the opening of the Monte Carlo Rendezvous and every year we have had the sort of conversation that helps set the tone for the rest of the gathering and indeed the rest for the calendar year and into the next.
This year was no exception.
As ever, Richard was forceful, unambiguous and direct on al
Sp Ep The New Benchmark for Quality Underwriting with Ali Shahkarami Swiss Re & Simon Fagg AdvantageGo
Successful insurers have always been in the business of gaining a competitive edge in the form of better information and intelligence.
Going right back to the days of early marine underwriters funding improved communication between global ports and ship operators, the best players have always made sure they had the clearest possible view of the risk in front of them both, at a granular, individu
Ep268 Sarah Murrow CEO Allianz Trade Americas: Insuring one of your client's biggest assets
Insurance has a huge amount of specialisms that don’t always cross over, which means that we can go our whole careers as insurance professionals, having a rough idea about what a particular class of business does, but not really ever appreciating the detailed picture.
I think Trade Credit is one of those classes and that’s something we should all fix, not least because it’s a product that our clie
Sp Ep Powering Progress: How to Institutionalise Innovation for the Energy Transition
Deep down we are all know that innovation isn't just a buzzword; it's really a matter of long-term survival.
It is getting increasingly difficult to argue against the idea that the speed of change keeps accelerating and we now live in a world where what was science fiction only 20 years ago could soon become the norm.
For instance, who would have guessed that the majority of our growing energy nee
Ep267 Clemens Jungsthöfel Hannover Re: Our clients don't like surprises - neither do we
Today’s guest has just taken over the reins at a business that has always aimed to be a company that people find easy to work with and enjoy dealing with.
Having been around long enough to have met and interviewed all three of his immediate predecessors, I can attest to this.
Despite being at the head of a key global reinsurer, all those leaders were always open, accessible and down to earth:
Ep266 Jonathan Spry Envelop Risk: Bringing Underwriters inside the Black Box
I really enjoyed today’s interview because is it packed full of eureka moments.
Sometimes looking at a business from the outside it is hard to work out exactly what it does and how and why it does it. Visiting the website of a company of this sort tends to throw up more questions than it answers. And that’s frustrating for a journalist as It’s my job to make sense of these things
For me cyber r
Ep265 Gregg Bundschuh EPIC: A Different Type of Matrix
If you just confined your view to the top four brokers, you might easily assume that not much has happened in the US retail broking segment in the last ten years.
But if you broadened you view to the top ten or twenty, you’d be faced with a very large number of billion-dollar-plus revenue broking groups that you would have been hard pressed to name ten years ago and many of which didn’t exist as
Sp Ep Jeff Ward Ebix Europe: The Unquestionable Benefits of Data-First
Todays’ guest has been working on implanting the best technology into the London Market since the days when computer screens only displayed varying shades of green.
He’s someone who I have known for twenty years and have come to rely upon to unpack all the jargon, spell out the acronyms and explain in layman’s terms what is really happening in the ongoing process of London Market technological r
Ep264 Andrew McMellin: Putting Markel on the Map
The global, wholesale and specialty insurance and reinsurance segment of the global market has been putting out very strong results in recent times.
If I had to highlight a consistent theme in my interviews of the past year, it would be an almost universal desire among carriers for continued growth, but without compromising on profitability as appetites return and the market becomes more competi
Sp Ep Simon Pollack & Owen Whelan of Calibrant: Sledgehammers for Scalpels - Precision in Portfolio Management
Today's Episode is fun and insightful from start to finish and that is entirely down to my guests.
One of the great Eureka moments in insurance comes when you meet an actuary who is a great communicator. Five minutes chatting to them usually unlocks understanding that would take you years to glean yourself, or which indeed you may never have worked out without their help.
Luckily today I am tal
Ep263 Anthony Siggers, Marsh: The digital broker of the future
Today’s guest is a visionary and in the next 40 minutes he’s going to outline the future of broking.
As insurance placement process evolves from being the movement of documents around the market to a seamless flow of data between parties, we are on the cusp of a big bang in complex insurance.
If you think that this is something that won’t be happening any time soon, you are completely wrong -
Sp Ep Beazley: Cyber Risk - From Breach to Boardrooms and Beyond
Today, we’re going to go deeper into the world of cyber attacks than we have ever done before.
We’ll be looking at the insurance claims that they produce as well as the longer-term consequences for their victims
Often as journalists covering cyber insurance we focus on the big hacks, the headline numbers, and gloss over the detail of the personal stories and the real hard yards that have to be
Ep262 Jason Howard Acrisure International: A very Simple Model
This week’s Episode is a burst of energy.
Jason Howard is President of Acrisure International and has the task of looking after everything in the Acrisure Group that is outside the US, Reinsurance and Wholesale.
This means most of the world is effectively his oyster. A group as ambitious and fast-moving as Acrisure needs someone with enormous drive and enthusiasm to deliver on such a universal
Ep261 Dave Matcham & Chris Jones IUA: You've got to show tangible value to members
Today’s Episode is a really enjoyable two-hander.
After over twenty years running the IUA (or the International Underwriting Association, to spell it out in full) Dave Matcham has just passed his CEO role over to Chris Jones.
So this episode serves a double mission. The first is to mark the extraordinary career of Dave Matcham, the London Market’s longest-serving CEO and someone who has helped g
Sp Ep Tony Russell, VIPR & Rahul Bhatia, Sikich: Moving from How? to Wow!
Today’s Episode is all about collaboration.
To anyone in the London Market, VIPR has become a very well-known technology company, particularly in the area of Delegated Authority, where its Bordereaux management systems have achieved a critical mass of adoption.
But as the business looks to expand globally, particularly the huge and strategically-crucial US market, it needs to partner with exist
Ep260 Louise Rose TransRe: Spotting the Tipping Point
Today’s guest has one of the broadest international reinsurance roles of anyone I have interviewed on the podcast.
That’s because Louise Rose has oversight over everything that TransRe does outside of the Americas.
Louise has been on the show before as part of the annual Monte Carlo special Episode, but it’s wonderful to have the time for a comprehensive examination of the state of the reinsura
Ep259 Mark Allan Ki: A chance to stand out from the crowd
As the global subscription market digitises, the roles of market leaders and followers are becoming much more clearly demarcated.
There are businesses designed to be leaders with large investments in class-specific expertise and specialist distribution relationships who are looking to align followers and consortium partners behind them.
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Ep257 Kevin Gill, Chairman of IRLA: Just scratching the surface
When I meet someone to record an interview they often ask me how long the podcast is going to be. My stock answer is that it entirely depends upon them.
Some people talk more than others and some people pack an awful lot into a lot less time, while others take longer to fully express themselves.
You also never quite know where the conversation is going to go and that is a huge variable.
Today
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Today’s Episode is special and completely out of the ordinary.
Regular listeners will know that in most episodes I will talk to senior insurance and reinsurance executives and focus on what they have just done and what are about to do.
Today’s no different in that respect, but it’s a far richer encounter because of who my guest is and what he has been doing since the summer of 2023.
Until ver
Ep255 Charlie Langdale Humanity Insured: Insurance Magic
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You pay a relatively small premium and if your house burns down, an Insurer will help you rebuild it.
But I’m sure most of us will at some time in their careers have felt that what we do day-to-day in our insurance jobs has become increasingly removed and disconnected from those basic principles.
Well today I’
Ep254 Emily Apple & Andreas Wichmann Alpha Insurance Analysts: Loyal Capital
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Their job is to give advice and guidance to Names, the high net worth individuals providing underwriting capital to Lloyd’s Syndicates, and their clients provide just under a billion pounds of capacity to the market.
There was a time around 20 years ago when such a role might have been seen as perhaps a little quaint – one of those odd quirks th
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