The Voice of Insurance

NEW EPISODE: WHY DIDN'T WE DO IT BEFORE? Today’s guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance. Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day. Today’s guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only just been recruited into the insurance industry. John Mason is the CEO of London Market electronic placing provider PPL Placing Platform Limited (PPL) and can boast a glittering career running the core systems and platforms that support hugely important global markets in other financial sectors outside of insurance. From this encounter I can tell you straight away that I think that we have a lot more to learn from John than he does from us. But thankfully for us John is not the sort of outsider who has come to lecture us on how to drag our antiquated trading systems into line with markets that fully digitised decades ago. John is very conscious of the need to meet us where we are and show how tech is going to make the way we already work way more efficient and higher added value, rather than try and force us to completely change the way we do business. John hasn’t been with us long, but the ideas we discuss in the time that follows are highly impressive and are set to transform frontline brokers’ and underwriters’ day-to-day relationship with the technology they use to carry out their jobs. They could unleash a wave of productivity and creativity that would completely re-set the market’s relationship with itself and with the rest of the world. It’s extraordinary stuff – but as I said at the beginning, John is very much out of the ordinary. LISTEN BELOW: https://lnkd.in/ekUhx8y6 #insurance #insurancepodcast #reinsurance

NEW EPISODE: MOVING TO A MORE REPEATABLE BUSINESS MODEL Today’s guest is a longstanding executive with an incredibly strong resumé, who is running one of the legacy sector’s most respected outfits. Bill O'Farrell is CEO of Premia Holdings and as such has an excellent overview of this rapidly maturing segment of the market. In the podcast Bill and I look at the state of the legacy market and how it is likely to be interacting with the live market going forward. At a time when the live market is undergoing one of its periodic crises of confidence in US casualty, it is particularly valuable to talk to someone who has spent much of his career making a living out of taking on and managing long-tail liabilities of all complexions. We also examine how the structure of the legacy market is evolving towards a partnership model in which repeat transactions with live market counterparties are much more likely than in the past. We also look at innovation and the best applications for AI within legacy as well as the prospects for an important role for the sector to play in the nascent casualty ILS market. https://lnkd.in/emK-V_HV #insurance #insurancepodcast #reinsurance AdvantageGo The Insurance Network

NEW EPISODE: BUILDING THE FUTURE OF BIG-TICKET INSURANCE SYSTEMS Todays’ guest is a senior treaty underwriting executive with such a strong technical and systems background that he ended up joining a firm dedicated to solving his sector’s problems. Bevis Tetlow is CEO of Imaginera, a business that produces specialist IT systems specifically designed for the big-ticket end of the market. Imaginera is also a highly specialist IT consultant to the industry. Bevis is one of us and speaks our language and that’s what makes this exchange so accessible and valuable. Here we dissect the world of workbenches and how state-of-the-art systems designed for reinsurers and other high-level specialist underwriters should look like in 2024. We also get Bevis’s views on where the next developments in technology are likely to take the high-end underwriting and broking businesses of the future. Bevis is great company and this podcast packs an awful lot of accumulated wisdom into half an hour. I learnt a lot and so I think will you. #insurance #insurancepodcast #reinsurance https://lnkd.in/eSfndFNi

NEW EPISODE: AVOIDING THE HERD With a career spanning more than 30 years, today’s guest is a senior executive who has the London insurance market well and truly in his blood. John Fowle has changed employer since his last appearance on this podcast just under three years ago and with a year under his belt as CEO of Atrium Underwriters Ltd, now seemed the perfect time to get him back on the show. Atrium is a Lloyd’s blue-chip performer, respected in the market for its agility and underwriting skill across the cycle, and ability to punch well above its weight. As Lloyd’s and Atrium are experiencing some of the best market conditions and underwriting results in their histories, this was a meeting with an executive at a business with great prospects in a market that is openly supportive to growth and innovation. With the world effectively Atrium’s oyster, there are many doors and options currently open to this carrier. With so many potential choices available, the conversation that follows reveals a lot about John and Atrium’s singular view of the insurance world – a view that has stood them in good stead over the last 30 years. We talk about the prospects for pricing and continued business flow into the London Market, a new-found maturity over collaboration, smart distribution and innovation and get specific updates on some of the classes in which Atrium is recognised as a leader. John is a straight-talking guest who doesn’t duck any of my more sensitive questions, but for me it’s his deep understanding of how the market fits together and what it does best, coupled with a senior manager’s knowledge of how to get the best out of high-performing underwriters that really shines through this Episode. #insurance #insurancepodcast #reinsurance https://lnkd.in/euTkybp3 AdvantageGo The Insurance Network

NEW EPISODE: Breadth, depth and quality at speed As CEO of Ryan Specialty Tim Turner has arguably some of the best visibility of the global insurance market and its stress points of anyone in the industry. In this podcast I was able to quiz Tim on all the trends in the market and he was really open and forthcoming. So if you’d like to know where the major friction points and opportunities are, whether the boom in E&S submissions will continue and wonder where ongoing retail broking consolidation and the continuing wave of MGA formations are likely to be leading, then listen on. You won’t be disappointed, but more importantly you’ll be spending time with one of the sector’s most successful, experienced and dynamic executives and learning what he thinks about the insurance world and how he intends to make the most of all the many commercial opportunities it is currently affording a business like Ryan Specialty. Tim’s also great company and his drive and enthusiasm for our sector is undiminished and I’ll wager a listen will put a renewed spring in your step. https://lnkd.in/ew-Wc5wr #insurance #insurancepodcast AdvantageGo The Insurance Network

NEW EPISODE: THE BEST INNOVATORS BUILD RELATIONSHIPS This is a great episode with someone whose job encompasses education, engagement and innovation and who has found real purpose and great satisfaction in her current role. Rosie Denée is best known for running the highly successful Lloyd's Lab innovation hub, but her full job title is in fact Head of Innovation, Commercial Education and Engagement at Lloyd’s. In this podcast we get to the heart of how to foment innovation in the global specialist insurance and reinsurance market and learn about the characteristics of the top insurtech companies that give them the best chance of success and perhaps more importantly, what traits are most closely associated with failure. We also get a sneak peek at what the next wave of new #Insurtech companies are likely to be offering the incumbent market in the coming years. Rosie is the sort of personal who lights up when she starts talking about her job and so I can guarantee that this will be an educational, innovative and highly engaging listen. #insurtech #insurance #insurancepodcast https://lnkd.in/e3XK-QYf

NEW EPISODE: LET THE MARKET DICTATE Today’s a really enjoyable episode because The Voice of Insurance is talking to someone of vast insurance market experience who is getting a shot at putting that deep knowledge and acquired wisdom into really useful practice. Gregory J. Massey has had an insurance career spanning four decades that culminated as Head of Programs at Zurich North America. On his retirement in 2022 he became an adviser to VIPR to help the company with its US expansion plans. This is a great match because in this role Greg is able bring his experience to bear to introduce US Delegated authority and programme management industry peers to the products and solutions that VIPR Ltd has been providing to that same community in the London Market for almost 15 years. Greg is a great professional and this podcast is a masterclass on best practice in the application of technology for solving core operational problems and generating a genuine data-driven edge in this burgeoning market segment. Greg is also excellent company and is incredibly open and generous with his insights. Half an hour with him will fly by and give you a large number of practical ideas you can apply to your own business. https://lnkd.in/eDBEdYwP #insurance #insurancepodcast #targetmarkets

NEW EPISODE: THE STATE OF (RE)INSURANCE 2024 At this Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous colour and confidence were visibly returning to the market. Smiles and receptive ears were in far greater supply than a year previously and the grim mood of two years ago had been almost completely forgotten. The only flies in the ointment were continued emergence of poor back year performance in some US casualty classes and a hesitancy among investors who still seemed more ready to punish any bad news, than reward the good. But whatever had been black and white two years ago was becoming progressively greyer and choice and options over what, and how, and in what shape or size, reinsurance could be bought, were beginning to open up for cedants. In short this is a market of nuances and one where experienced traders are going to be given an opportunity to shine. So join me as I root them out from either side of the underwriting desk and find out what’s going on. My promise to you is that if you weren’t lucky enough to be down on the Cote D’Azur in early September, listening to this podcast will be the next best thing to having been there in person, in the rooms, suites, cafés, restaurants and lobbies with me as I interrogate a large number of key industry personnel. Give me the next hour and I’ll give you the State of (Re)insurance. https://lnkd.in/euqEgZXa Thanks to Peter Wilkie, Shaun Sinniah Craig Darling Charles Goldie Simon Bird Jill Beggs Paul Brand Alex Maloney Vincent Tizzio Scott Egan Martin Burke Richard Brindle James Slaughter John Cavanagh Waleed Jabsheh John Welch and David Flandro #insurance #insurancepodcast #RVS2024 Stephens Rickard Miller Insurance Services LLP BMS Group Acrisure Re MS Reinsurance Brit Insurance Everest Convex Insurance Lancashire Insurance Group AXIS (AXIS Capital) SiriusPoint MS Amlin The Fidelis Partnership Beat Capital Partners Ltd IGI - International General Insurance Co. Ltd. Aspen Insurance Group Howden Re

NEW EPISODE: NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HARD WORK Todays’ Episode is a fast-moving, high-intensity blast from start to finish. That’s mostly because of the people I’m talking to, but also due to the circumstances under which we are doing the talking. First the people. Richard Brindle is well known to anyone in our business as one of the most dynamic underwriters in the market. And anyone following the Fidelis story will know that now the business has split into The Fidelis Partnership and the Fidelis Insurance Group, Richard has freed up time to be even more dynamic. It’s perhaps understandable that Richard Coulson FCII FIRM, The Fidelis Partnership’s CEO of Insurance & Deputy Group Chief Underwriting Officer, doesn’t yet have the same public profile as his namesake, but on this performance it won’t take long for that to start building. Secondly the venue was Monaco at the Monte Carlo RendezVous. The RendezVous always heightens the intensity of any interaction. People come there ready to communicate against the clock and that cut-to-the-chase feel very much comes through in this encounter. As a result this podcast covers everything it should – the state of global markets and where Fidelis is positioning itself to make the most of the opportunities those markets are throwing up, the Fidelis Partnership’s entrance to Lloyd's and the two Richard’s views on all the major issues of the day. This is a really enjoyable Episode, packed with singular, original and sometimes surprising insights. LISTEN HERE: https://lnkd.in/eyfjddAY #insurance #insurancepodcast #reinsurance AdvantageGo The Insurance Network