The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
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read about, listen to, and examine original ideas on the world of insurance. Mark Geoghegan provides unique insights and interviews on global reinsurance, wholesale insurance distribution and broking, analysis, E&S insurance, Lloyd's of London, Specialty Insurance, Insurance-Linked Securities, MGAs, Insurtech, Retro, and more.
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1d ago
Today we’re doing something completely different. We are going to try to look into the future.
In this Episode none of the people we are going to talk to are senior insurance leaders. But they might be the insurance leaders of the future.
We in insurance know that we’re not likely to be at the top of young people's wish lists when it comes to a future career.
But it’s only recently, as we have focused more on talent gaps, that we have started to do something about remedying this problem.
That’s where today’s episode comes in.
There is a wonderful talent accelerator called Startup She ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1w ago
Greg Hendrick is a dream guest. He’s smart, incredibly knowledgeable and experienced, but also really easy and fun to talk to.
He’s also still only in the fourth year of building out a major insurer, reinsurer and capital markets partner completely from scratch.
For Greg and Vantage Risk, time moves a lot faster and experience is accelerated and compressed compared to the rest of us.
There’s a huge amount to talk about and that’s why I was delighted to be able to spend so much time talking to him again.
Here we catch up on how Greg’s strategy has evolved against plan and get into great det ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
2w ago
Today’s guest has one of the biggest jobs in the London Market.
Kate Markham is CEO of Hiscox London Market and the last time we spoke she had just brought her business unit through a remediation strategy that was beginning to bear fruit.
Eighteen months later, and the results have been stellar.
Today the best are looking to invest and grow and get out on the front foot and lean into the opportunities that a still very strong market has to offer.
And this podcast is all about that. This is a business very much looking to the future.
Our conversation came about because Hiscox has been one ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
3w ago
Today’s guest is one of the most remarkable and exceptional people I have had on the show.
Guillaume Bonnissent is the CEO of Quotech, a business he founded just over four years ago.
With over 20 years in underwriting Guillaume can boast one of the most eclectic resumés of any of his peers.
He’s written almost every class going, via almost every distribution channel in the insurance value chain, spanning specialist insurance, treaty reinsurance, portfolio underwriting and an MGA.
This gives him a unique perspective on the needs of underwriters of all shapes and sizes, and indeed brokers to ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
3w ago
Most of my interviewees are good at using insurance to solve problems, but today’s guests Natalia Dorfman and James Kench of Lloyd’s Lab Alumnus Kita are taking this to a whole new level.
This is because the problem Kita wants to help solve is what most would say is the biggest of our generation: Climate change.
Kita’s still going to do this by solving client problems and making underwriting profits but it is inventing a whole new class of insurance to do so.
Carbon credits are key to the world hitting its 2050 net zero targets, but as a major and highly valuable asset they need high qualit ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1M ago
Today’s guest has just taken over the running of a reinsurance business that, like many other in the sector has been right-sizing and re-focusing its underwriting over the past few years.
But now Renaud Guidée and AXA XL Re are clearly out the other side and are looking to grow from their $2.5bn global premium base.
In this podcast we focus on the state of the reinsurance market, Renaud’s plans for the business as well as the question of how this reinsurer fits in strategically at one of the world’s largest insurance groups.
With executive experience in investment banking and with a challen ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1M ago
Today’s guest has had one of the broadest and most diverse careers of anyone I have interviewed.
Today Kera McDonald is the Chief Underwriting Officer of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions but over more than 25 years she has been an actuary and a pensions consultant, a risk manager, an aviation underwriter and a senior executive in an internal audit team.
I’d say that unique blend of experience is an excellent preparation for her current role, particularly as Swiss Re Corporate Solutions moves out of its remediation phase into a period of sustainable growth.
Kera is direct and easy to talk to and ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1M ago
Today I’m talking to someone with an incredibly long and varied career at the intersection between science, technology and insurance and reinsurance, on both the broking and underwriting sides of the business.
Now Mike Steel is General Manager of Moody’s RMS and is serving all facets of the industry from an independent perspective.
The legacy RMS business effectively invented the insurance and reinsurance modelling industry and from the evidence that follows, it has been reinvigorated by its acquisition by global ratings agency and data and analytics firm Moody’s.
I often liken the business ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1M ago
Today’s guest is Robert Wiest CEO of MS Re.
After a long and distinguished career in both insurance and reinsurance, much of which was spent at Swiss Re, Robert took on his latest role in September 2022.
With prominent career roles in both P&C and Life - in Europe and Asia Robert is an extremely well-travelled and well-rounded professional and this broad experience shines through in the podcast.
Robert is comfortable on any subject and he’s the sort of person with whom anyone could strike up a rapport.
MS Re has rebranded and re-set the image it wishes to project out into the market and be ..read more
The Voice of Insurance | Insurance Podcasts and Opinion
1M ago
Today’s episode showcases a really important advancement in the provision of technology to the insurance industry.
Back in the early days of computerisation we installed different systems in our businesses to do different jobs. We didn’t expect them to talk to each other. And because each was made of proprietary tech – they almost certainly didn’t.
Nowadays we want systems to ingest data sources and the output of other systems and we expect these new outputs to be easily ingestible further down the chain by our own suppliers and all the different departments of our business as well as ..read more