Ep145 Adrian Jones Transcript
Mark Geoghegan Adrian, welcome to the voice of insurance. Adrian Jones Good to speak again, Mark. Mark Geoghegan So you work at Hudson...
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The Naked Coronation
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The Insurer of England
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The $72bn broker
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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?
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The ten most expensive words in English
Insurance, reinsurance, casualty insurance, hard insurance markets, casualty reserving, reserve inadequacy, reserve strengthening.
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Jan 10, 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...
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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.
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Dec 13, 2019
What makes a good Lead Underwriter?
Distilliing the essence of great underwriting takes us on a wild, but ultimately valuable, rewarding and worthwhile journey...
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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
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Nov 14, 2019
Profit beats scale any day
Size is no guarantee that you will not one day lose your way, in fact quite the opposite can be true.
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Oct 16, 2019
Anarchy in the body corporate
Everyone in senior management is talking about culture these days. When was it that we all decided to become amateur insurance...
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Oct 7, 2019
Amlin's Atonement
Everyone gets things wrong. It is the resolve to fix mistakes that matters the most
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Oct 3, 2019
The Apple of Lloyd's eye
Lloyd's is making a play to become the Apple of insurance It was a smooth and glitzy production. The room was dressed in the corporate...
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