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Emmanuel Kenning

News editor, Insurance Age

Emmanuel is the News editor of Insurance Age and has over a decade of experience writing about the insurance industry.

Well connected with the broking community he is now in his second stint at Insurance Age.

He started his career as a reporter on broker-focused title Professional Broking in 2009 becoming a senior reporter ahead of joining Insurance Age at the end of 2010.

Promoted to features editor in October 2011 Emmanuel became editor the following June holding the post for nearly six years before deciding to return to being a reporter to focus on news writing and analysis.

Along with deep knowledge of insurance he has also gained a solid understanding of reinsurance through a year writing on the market with a particular focus on insurance-linked securities at Trading Risk.

He re-joined Infopro-Digital in late 2019 taking up the position of senior reporter at Post working on the broking beat.

Emmanuel returned to Insurance Age in February 2022 to lead the news team. He focuses on bringing in and editing exclusive news and analyses along with keeping readers up to date on company announcements throughout the sector.

He also supports the editor across videos, podcasts, events, profile interviews, data driven research, opinion pieces and more to help keep Insurance Age ahead of the competition.

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Articles by Emmanuel Kenning

McManus: slapping on chartered label not enough

Brendan McManus, chief executive officer at Giles Insurance Brokers, has expressed his concerns at brokers “just slapping on” the chartered label and claimed that he had seen evidence of chartered brokers behaving in a less professional manner than non…

esure reshuffles board

esure Group Holdings - parent company of esure and Sheilas’ Wheels – has added Anne Richards, chief investment officer at Aberdeen Asset Management to its board as a non-executive director.

Biba Scotland: Uncertainty in the country

Graeme Trudgill, head of corporate affairs at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba), has listed the five “huge, huge” issues that brokers in Scotland could be faced with in the event of a 'yes' vote for independence.

Davey defends SSP service

Jonathan Davey, managing director of Keychoice, has defended SSP as doing "a damned good job" following the interruption to its broker service with aggregators.

Groupama adds to Optima range

Groupama has added an online quotation facility for group personal accident, illness and business travel cover to its Optima Online extranet.

Torrance: A strong performance

Chief executive Andrew Torrance has hailed Allianz UK’s performance as “very strong” as it reported profits of £115m for the first nine months of the year.

Dip in profits at Allianz

Allianz has reported a fall in profits to £115m for the first nine months of 2012, down from £123.6m in the same period of 2011.

The £50K resignation

If your boss were to offer you £50,000 what would you do? Well, the correct action would of course be to resign.

Insurer regulation costs hit £730m

The UK general insurance sector is now paying well over £730m a year to cover the direct costs of regulation and compliance, according to research from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain RPC).

Markel reports improved COR and GWP

Markel International has reported gross written premiums (GWP) of $705m [£442m] for the nine months ended September 30, up 4% from $677m for the same period of 2011.

Aspen launches PI products

Aspen Risk Management has launched a new range of professional indemnity (PI) products with a selection of added features.

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