This week we are talking to Cat Drummond, a Partner at LCP, about key trends in the general insurance market, drawing on insights from Cat’s annual review of solvency disclosures of the top 100 firms in the UK and Ireland.

We explore questions including:

• Are insurers’ balance sheets becoming stronger or weaker?

• How well has the market coped with COVID-19?

• Is the industry adequately prepared for cyber risk and climate change?

• Post-Brexit, will the UK make changes to Solvency II?

This week we are talking to Ed Harrison, a Senior Consultant at LCP, about inflation in the insurance industry.

We explore questions including:

• Why is inflation a hot topic for insurers right now?

• What is social inflation?

• How does inflation affect different aspects of insurers’ business models?

• How can insurers tackle inflation risks in their day to day operations?

We talk to Tom Clementi, former CEO of MS Amlin Underwriting Limited.

We explore questions including:

• What three things should a good insurance CEO focus on?

• How can an insurer build a culture that fosters long term success?

• How can NEDs and the C-suite work together more effectively?

• How can insurers compete in a post-COVID world and avoid being disrupted?

• Are some insurers are getting their thinking on climate change back to front?

and many more!

This week show hosts Charl Cronje and Jessica Clark speak to Laura Hobern, a principal at LCP, about the sharing economy and how it will change the insurance industry.

We discuss:

• What the sharing economy is and examples of firms who work in this market?

• How insurers need to change to meet the needs of the sharing

economy?

• What are the pros and cons of the sharing economy?

• What opportunities can the sharing economy provide?

This week show hosts Charl Cronje and Jessica Clark speak to Stewart Mitchell, partner at LCP, on how environmental, social and governance(ESG) issues will change the insurance landscape.

We discuss:

- Examples of how ESG issues have already started to cause changes in the insurance industry.

- Who should decide what insurers should (or should not) cover?

- Are these changes good for business?

- What changes might we expect to see in the future and when?