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  • Aviva shares fall despite private health boom boosting insurance giant

    Aviva

    Shares in Aviva fell even after it recorded a strong start to the year, with sales rising eleven per cent thanks to a boom in private healthcare. Private healthcare sales grew by a quarter to £33m as more customers were attracted to “the benefits of private cover,” perhaps boosted by Brits looking for alternatives to [...]

  • Leaseholders to gain new rights under FCA insurance reforms

    Leasehold reform

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed insurance reforms to protect leaseholders from paying extortionate sums for insurance. Under the new plans, leaseholders will be defined as “customers of buildings insurance” and insurance firms will be obliged to act in the leaseholders’ best interests. A leaseholder is someone who has bought the right to live [...]

  • The Square Mile and Me: Steve McGill on Boots, negativity and the Four Seasons

    interview

    We dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good: this week, Steve McGill details his life running the fastest-growing speciality broking firm in the world, McGill and Partners. Quick-fire round What’s your favourite…?

  • End of the road: Why More Than will no longer sell car insurance as insurer RSA quits market

    March 29, 2023

    RSA has set out its plans to exit the car insurance business in the face of “extremely competitive” market conditions.   In a statement, RSA said it had struck an agreement to “introduce” car insurance customers held through its More Than business to UK rival Swinton, with a view to boosting its business, home and [...]

  • Could fixing workplace stress save the UK £28bn a year? Axa warns burnout is burning a hole the economy

    March 29, 2023

    People taking sick days because of work-related stress or burnout is costing the UK economy £28 billion a year, according to new research which highlights the financial toll of poor mental wellbeing. More people said they were struggling in the UK than in any other nation, the survey of 30,000 adults across 16 European, Asian [...]

  • From cow herder to corporate chief – meet the man who leads Axa’s City division

    March 29, 2023

    Axa’s UK chief executive Claudio Gienal is willing to admit he’s a tough boss. Speaking to City A.M., the Swiss exec, who took up his position as the head of Axa’s UK & Ireland business in 2017, is very clear that he doesn’t like “excuses”. He’s also clear that the people around him have to [...]

  • Lloyd’s of London’s war underwriters prepare to pay out over ships stuck in Ukrainian waters

    March 28, 2023

    Lloyd’s of London’s war underwriters have begun setting aside cash reserves as they prepare to pay out on a flurry of claims from the owners of ships stuck in Ukraine’s territorial waters. The insurance market is readying itself for a new wave of claims from shipowners that have now become viable following the anniversary of [...]

  • Stop being TWaTs! Lloyd’s of London chief says City must drop ‘Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday world’

    March 23, 2023

    Lloyd’s of London chief John Neal has called for a move away from the “Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday world” in arguing there will always be times that people “have to be in every day of the week”. Speaking to City A.M., Neal called for a shift away from the “two days a week or three days [...]

  • Hurricane Ian sees global insurance sector suffer more than $100bn loss for the fifth time since 1970

    March 22, 2023

    The global insurance sector suffered natural catastrophe losses of more than $100bn (£81bn) for just the fifth time in 2022, after taking a major hit from Hurricane Ian, new research shows. Natural catastrophes caused $275bn worth of damage in 2022, costing insurance companies $125bn, the research from reinsurance company Swiss Re shows.    The hit [...]

  • Axa rejects claim FCA’s Consumer Duty could hurt City’s finance sector

    March 22, 2023

    The head of Axa’s UK & Ireland division has pushed back against claims the Financial Conduct Authority’s new Consumer Duty could hinder the City’s competitiveness. Claudio Gienal, chief executive of AXA UK and Ireland, told City A.M. he “supports” the FCA’s new customer-focused mandate. Gienal also said he doesn’t “see an issue with competitiveness” around [...]

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