Simon Cooper, Head of Underwriting Insight — AEGIS London. What will the digital syndicate of the future look like? AEGIS London’s Simon Cooper has been tasked with finding the answers now. If you ask people to speculate about how their role will change in three years’ time, they really won’t be very imaginative. They might volunteer a su...

Martin King, Class Underwriter — International Professional Indemnity — AEGIS London. London’s professional indemnity market may have survived the worst of the pandemic’s economic effects but could the growth in remote working be its undoing? AEGIS London’s Martin King says it’s time to travel. I’m writing these words in a hotel in C...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. When lockdown was the problem, e-trading was the solution. But now the pandemic’s grip is easing, have we created a technological rod for our backs, asks AEGIS London’s Nigel Roberts.  When some commentators look back at the London insurance market’s performance during the pa...

Lloyd's of London's US team offers syndicates involved in US business the opportunity to present online to an audience of American brokers and agents. In February 2021, it was the turn of AEGIS London. Here's our CEO David Croom-Johnson, active underwriter Alex Powell and head of distribution Nigel Roberts explaining everything you need to know ab...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. 2021 has the potential to be an outstanding year for the London insurance market, says AEGIS London’s Nigel Roberts. But only if businesses invest time and money in adapting to a post-pandemic world. Usually at this time of the year, insurance industry pundits form an orderly queue to...

Gemma Burns, Head of Digital Underwriting — AEGIS London Chrissie Hall, Cargo Underwriter — AEGIS London. Since the publication of the first London Matters report, in 2017, there’s been a spotlight thrown on the London market’s distribution and acquisition costs. Many now believe those costs are too high; others, however, are...

Chris Terry, Head of International Liability — AEGIS London. Covid-19 has ushered in a new era of electronic trading to the London market. But let’s not allow it to throw the baby out with the bathwater, says AEGIS London’s Chris Terry. One of the more frustrating aspects of modern life is the way society likes to divide the world into...

Stephen Merrick, Class Underwriter, International Casualty Facilities — AEGIS London. Canadian delegated authority business is a mainstay of Lloyd’s North American presence. AEGIS London’s Stephen Merrick considers how the market can optimise this trading relationship. I’ve always been fascinated by the differences between Canada and th...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. It is possible we could look back on 2019 as a turning point for Lloyd’s. Market conditions are on the turn. Governance and profitability are improving. Cultural reform is under way and there is a clear vision for how to shape the future. But be in no doubt, we still have a mountain to clim...

Tom Squires, Head of Digital Trading — AEGIS London. Making a success of smaller US P&C business has proven elusive for Lloyd’s underwriters. AEGIS London’s Tom Squires says that taking the digital route is the best approach. ‘There’s more than one way to skin a cat’ is an old adage that never was truer than in the world of US property ...

Martin King, Class Underwriter — International Professional Indemnity — AEGIS London. What went wrong in Lloyd’s international E&O market? AEGIS London’s Martin King knows. He’s seen it all before. As a practitioner with 37 years’ E&O experience – 31 of those as an E&O underwriter – the current hard market in International E...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. Lloyd’s new prospectus adds John Neal’s vision to a growing pile of potential plans for market modernisation. Will it be different this time wonders AEGIS London’s Nigel Roberts Reading the recently published Lloyd’s prospectus outlining CEO John Neal’s vision for the market’s future, I was...

Alex Powell, Active Underwriter — AEGIS London. This month, writing about the fortunes of Lloyd’s property market in 2018, Insurance Day singled out AEGIS London for its strong performance in recording a £21.3m underwriting profit while most other syndicates tipped into an underwriting loss. Praise, indeed. But perhaps more telling was ...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. Are MGAs working in the interest of customers? Or are they a cynical ploy to squeeze commission from a diminishing pool of premiums? AEGIS London’s head of distribution, Nigel Roberts, plays devil’s advocate. Amazon has succeeded on many different levels, but one of the most important ...

David Croom-Johnson, Managing Director — AEGIS London. There’s an old joke about the underwriting room of the future. It will have an underwriter, a computer and a dog. Why a dog? To keep the underwriter away from the computer. I re-told this joke at the Underwriter CEO panel at this week’s Insider London conference, not in the expectation o...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Distribution — AEGIS London. There never seems to be a dull year in the London insurance market and 2018 has been no exception. But what I think has made the year even more fascinating is that we have seen shifts in both broking and underwriting that are going to significantly impact the way we all do business in ...

John Chambers, Director of Innovation and Corporate Development — AEGIS London. Making London an easier place to do business is a core focus of the London market. The success of its Target Operating Model (TOM), a key component of this drive, hinges on two core principles: one-touch data capture, and one centralised administration system allo...

Richard Foulger, Head of Claims — AEGIS London. To the outside world, Lloyd’s is viewed as one entity. But we don’t behave as one. With nearly half of Lloyd’s business (40%) now conducted via delegated authority, it’s about time we ensured that our claims processes meet the same high performance standard right across the Lloyd’s platform – w...

Ben Lockwood, Deputy Head of Speciality — AEGIS London. The full repercussions of the US abandonment of the JCPOA in May this year and reinstatement of sanctions are yet to un-fold. At the time of writing, hard-line Iranian President Rouhani’s threat to Iranian diplomats: "America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all pe...

New York’s outdated legislation is hindering the city’s renewal and inflating the cost of liability cover so vital to its construction industry, says AEGIS London’s Matt Yeldham. Skyscrapers may have been born in Chicago with 1885’s Home Insurance Building but they undoubtedly came of age in New York. Between the 1880s and 1930s, a wave of high-r...

AEGIS London’s Nick Waymark, Class Underwriter for Accident and Health, examines the risks facing crew working on the world’s most expensive privately-owned vessels. Superyacht: the word positively wreaks of oligarchs and opulence. It conjures visions of multi-decked sleek, white floating hotels tugging listlessly on their moorings as the late a...

Ben Lockwood, Deputy Head of Specialty — AEGIS London. So-called ISIS may no longer pose the same nature of threat to the Middle East that it did two to three years ago, but AEGIS London’s Ben Lockwood says the terrorist organisation’s fragmentation has its own dangers. According to some commentators, the Islamic State’s dream is over. The f...

Nigel Roberts, Head of Broker Relations — AEGIS London. TS Elliot was the first to report the “whisper down the line at 11.39” suggesting the train was getting ready to depart.  At AEGIS London, we think it’s more likely to be first quarter 2018 when the Lloyd’s market may see real signs of hardening. What whispers are we hearing...

David Lineham, Political and Financial Risks Underwriter — AEGIS London. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, popularised by the famous TV series Breaking Bad, is one of the most famous ideas in physics. It tells us that there is a fuzziness in nature, a fundamental limit to what we can know about the behaviour of a particle. The most we...

Richard Foulger, Head of Claims — AEGIS London. Managing the impact of HIM – hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria – is one of the biggest tests the Lloyd’s market will face this decade. Richard Foulger, Head of Claims at AEGIS London assesses the trio of financial, logistical and reputational challenges that arise out of HIM. When catastrophe...