The latest
edition of Insurance
People picks the brains of some of the brightest lights in the
insurance market and, as usual, ranges over more topics than you can shake your
proverbial stick at.
We start by
catching up with Mark Cliff, Managing Director
of Ageas. In an Insurance
People interview early in 2010 he declared that, despite the
economic downturn, Ageas’s key differentiator would be the quality of service
it delivered to brokers. If the growth across their business this year is
anything to go by they appear to have been true to their word.
Malcolm Lee, (right) Managing Director of TEn Insurance sheds
some light on Appointed Representative networks. He points to the conflict that
can arise when entrepreneurial brokers come up against the rigid world of
compliance and regulation. Many are looking at compliance networks to help them
manage the mundane so they concentrate on being enterprising. The question is
though, what should they look for in their Network?
Talking of
entrepreneurial brokers, David Bruce,
(left) Commercial Product Manager at Aviva believes there are significant
opportunities for them in the environmental good and services sector. Currently
only a relatively small part of the SME market, it is growing rapidly.
Ian Faulkner, Managing Director at Metaskil offers an
insight into another growing sector of the insurance sector: telematics. Mainly
considered as an underwriting tool he explains that telematics can also come in
very handy for combating insurance fraud.
Alan Cleary (right) takes a sideways view of 2011, and is the
only annual review you’ll find in the insurance press that includes categories
for the “most lickable person” and “sandal wearing beardie of the year.”
Finally, Andrew Newman, the Insurance
People Editor combines his regular On The Road feature with On The
Track – a story of high speed credit control....
As always,
industry experts write the features in Insurance
People, which means you get insights that you simply can’t find
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until February. However, our website will be constantly updated with all the
news throughout December and January so remember to visit us on-line regularly.
