Aviva
Aviva are the UK’s leading diversified insurer, with businesses spanning insurance, wealth, and retirement. They also have major operations in Ireland and Canada. Aviva is a leading general insurer in the UK and Ireland, providing insurance solutions to over 12 million customers. Aviva offer commercial lines insurance to a wide range of businesses, from the micro segment up to large UK and global corporates. They also operate in the London market through their Lloyds syndicate, Probitas. In personal lines, they offer motor, home, travel, breakdown, pet and gadget insurance. They operate their own garage repair network and completed the acquisition of Direct Line in July 2025. They have been taking care of people for more than 325 years, in line with their purpose of being ‘with you today, for a better tomorrow’. In 2025, they paid £31.9 billion in claims and benefits to their customers.
NU's rebranding goes live with one-stop-shop Aviva website
Aviva has officially launched its new broker portal website, the first site to be rebranded under th...
Opportunity knocks
Despite the frightening economic statistics reigning down on us, seemingly hourly, this year could b...
Norwich Union - Mayer explains broker strategy
Norwich Union's chief executive is shaking up the market, writes Andrew Tjaardstra
Data loss - Data defence
Anne Crofts and Rhiannon Davies iterate the case for adhering to Financial Services Authority regulations concerning maintaining good data security
Equality - Broking gender gap closing - slowly
There are relatively few female broker managers, though the obstacles faced by women aiming for senior roles are not insurmountable, writes Katherine Brandon
Marketing - Playing the campaign game
Katherine Brandon investigates how brokers can extract best value from their marketing budgets
Norwich Union purges commercial book as market rates show hardening
Norwich Union (NU) is purging its insurance portfolio of poorly performing business as other large c...
Giles unveils 2009 strategy and slams NU's commission stance
Chris Giles has set out his strategy for 2009 while accusing Norwich Union UK's chief executive of b...
James Clarke - Keeping the best traditions
Director's Q&A
Crunch time for the economy
The economy is going through some difficult times and carnage on Wall Street is already filtering th...
At the crossroads
Imarket
Residential property - Out of crisis, opportunity
Some brokers are shying away from the residential property market in the current gloomy economic landscape. However, under the surface lurks a highly accessible and competitive multi-tenancy market, writes Katherine Brandon