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A post-post-consolidated world
It turns out that the reinsurance broking world isn’t post-consolidated at all...
Mark Geoghegan
Jul 20, 2022


Baader-Meinhof and Employee A
We can’t carry on pretending bad behaviour doesn't exist. It is everywhere we look.
Mark Geoghegan
Jun 10, 2022


Pax Romana? We were always Barbarians
When a CEO tells me their new owner ‘doesn’t ever need to sell’ that simply cannot be true in the long term.
Mark Geoghegan
Jan 27, 2022


The Naked Coronation
The Emperor was understandably a little nervous. He had been preparing for this moment for more than two years. But finally everything...
Mark Geoghegan
Jun 24, 2021


The Insurer of England
Don’t be fooled by the post-financial crisis outbreak of relative humility. Underneath the banks still feel they are the senior financial...
Mark Geoghegan
Oct 19, 2020


The $72bn broker
Anyone of a certain age will have the opening credits of the 1970’s hit TV show The Six Million Dollar Man etched in a dark corner of...
Mark Geoghegan
Sep 25, 2020


A complete lack of imaginaton
We are supposed to be the experts, but when it comes down to it, we aren’t very good at insurance, are we?
Mark Geoghegan
Sep 17, 2020


The ten most expensive words in English
Insurance, reinsurance, casualty insurance, hard insurance markets, casualty reserving, reserve inadequacy, reserve strengthening.
Mark Geoghegan
Jan 17, 2020


The grow-your-own liability crisis
Here’s a thought. Is the social inflation that is now bleeding red ink into US casualty numbers and scaring investors really our own...
Mark Geoghegan
Jan 10, 2020


Everything still has a price
A relaxed encounter with James Vickers of Wills Re tells Mark Geoghegan all he needs to know about the state of the Reinsurance market.
Mark Geoghegan
Jan 3, 2020


What makes a good Lead Underwriter?
Distilliing the essence of great underwriting takes us on a wild, but ultimately valuable, rewarding and worthwhile journey...
Mark Geoghegan
Dec 13, 2019


A classic Lloyd’s dish revived
If the new Lloyd’s syndication reforms are successful, scale will automatically spring from being really, really good at what you
Mark Geoghegan
Nov 30, 2019
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