Opinion: Chris Hanks on protecting the insurance sector's reputation

Keeping an eye on insurance: The insurance sector needs to learn how to say no and to protect the industry’s reputation, says Chris Hanks

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about training and development in the industry.

I’m still involved with insurance, but since I stepped down from Allianz I have been able to look with a friendly – but critical eye – from further afield at the professionalism of the sector and how it is perceived in wider society.

At a recent lunch for the Chairs of Risk Committees sponsored by the Prudential Regulation Authority, the range and severity of the risks confronting us was frightening. As