Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Martin Shaw, Head of Policy at the Association of Financial Mutuals, and in this episode they are discussing friendly societies.

In this episode we cover:

• What a friendly society is
• The merger between the Association of Friendly Societies and the Association of Financial Mutuals
• The history of friendly societies
• Why people set up friendly societies
• The role they play in the modern world
• How they are regulated

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Sam White, Founder of Stella Insurance, and amongst other things they will be discussing motor insurance.

In this episode we cover:

• How and why Sam founded Stella
• The reasons Sam felt so passionate about setting up an insurance brand to represent women.
• Sam's analysis of the UK motor insurance market
• The leadership qualities we should be seeking in our future leaders
• What should come first in the corporate world profit or people

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Ivan Haigh, Professor of Coastal Oceanography at the University of Southampton. In this episode we discuss the future of flooding.

In this episode we cover:

• What is happening at the with sea levels and the causes in the change.
• What impact this is likely to have on society.
•   What the future hold for rising sea levels and flooding.
• Ivan's article "Will London soon be underwater".
• How insurers can use data to prepare for such changes.

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part eight we look at:

• the future of insurance
• the rise of morality within insurance
• insurance and ESG
• insurance as a moral system?
• The social purpose of insurance
• Insurance and climate change

We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part seven we look at:

• The philosophical thinking behind insurance
• the framework for understanding why insurance is such a potent force in society
• The five F words that help us understand the philosophy behind insurance: Fragility, Fear, Future, Faith and Freedom
• insurance as a mirror to our own insecurities 
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We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part six we look at:

• How insurance developed into the global industry it is today
• How insurance came to be 'everywhere'
• How technology and enhanced trade encouraged the growth of insurance
• The impact war in the 1900s had on dismantling the insurance network centred around Britain and the development of more national insurance industries
• The development of specialist reinsurers
• The use of microinsurance in developing countries
• The welfare system making insurance available to everyone

We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part five we look at:

• How insurers calculate future risk
• How insurance seeks to identify 'monsters in the fog'
• The opening of the worlds first life assurance fund in 1744
• The use of mortality rates to calculate risk of death
• Early applications of probability theory
• The change on life assurance policies that required purchasers to have an insurable interest in the individual.

We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part four we look at:

• The psychology of insurance
• Why we buy insurance
• The impact insurance has on 'moral hazard'
• The paradox of insurance - 'It changes nothing but changes everything'
• The impact of insurance in 3 historically important events; the industrial revoloution in Britain, the war of independence in America & the North Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
• Insurance as the great 'Unmoved Mover'

We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part three we look at:

• The first evidence of a modern insurance policy.
• The merchant-insurer trade in 14th century Italy.
• The opening of the first insurance companies.
• How Antwerp became the first major insurance hub.
• How London became the insurance capital.
• The opening of Edward Lloyd's coffee shop.
• The rise of fire insurance, a response to the 1666, Great Fire of London.

We hope you enjoy the first of our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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Welcome to Insurance Covered summer special mini series Meditations on Insurance and Society.  

Normally on this podcast Peter is joined by a guest to discuss an aspect of the wonderful world of insurance. But, this August, we are doing something different. Instead of our normal fortnightly podcast, we are releasing an 8 episode mini series focusing on the role that insurance has played throughout history in shaping society. They will incorporate a bit of history, a bit of philosophy, some psychology, a lot of insurance and… who knows what else.

In part two we look at:

•  How the concept of insurance developed in the era of the Babylonians.
• The link between religious faith and insurance.
• Bottomry and Respondentia as a early form of proto-insurance.
• Why the Amish do not use insurance.
• The prerequisites to the modern premium based insurance we know today.

We hope you enjoy our summer special series and will follow along with new episodes releasing every Monday and Thursday throughout August.

Regular episodes will resume in September

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