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The price is right: valuing a portfolio.
Q: My colleague and I currently run a specialist portfolio within a brokerage. We wish to buy this portfolio, but have no idea of its value. Can you help?
Growing pains.
The risks associated with genetically modified crops have dominated the headlines in recent months. The problem for farmers, insurers and brokers is that the risks are, as yet, unquantifiable, says Adrian Leonard.
Drake cover: sink or swim?
Drake policyholders will be told this month whether their policies are going to be cancelled, follow...
Appointment at The Miller Insurance Group.
The Miller Insurance Group has promoted the following to director level: Colin Johnson, Barry Hales,...
Appointment at Provident Insurance.
Simon Kneller has been appointed director of actuarial services at Provident Insurance. He joined Pr...
Appointment at HML Marketing.
Joe Gallagher has joined HML Marketing as area manager covering Scotland and the north-east of Engla...
Fully booked?
Although rates in the pub, restaurant and hotel market are starting to show signs of hardening, brokers should not be too quick to rush into this competitive sector. It is important not to underestimate the risks, says Steve Banner.
RSA enhances its property owners contract.
Royal & SunAlliance has relaunched its property owners cover. Originally launched in 1997, the enh...
Brokers take to the skies with aeroinsure.com
The British Aviation Insurance Group (BAIG) is targetting regional brokers with the launch of the fir...
Ockham to transfer more business to HighCo
Ockham Holdings is seeking to raise enough capital to enable it to transfer all of its motor insuranc...
CGU provides good news for football fans
CGU has provided a ray of light in a miserable week for football by buying Direct Club. The main-play...
Edgar Hamilton and FE Wright to merge
Lloyd's brokers Edgar Hamilton and FE Wright are to merge, following the acquisition of FE Wright fro...
RapidInsure launches office policy
Phil Rosen, commercial development and marketing manager at Cornhill Insurance, has predicted that th...
Churchill joins AA panel
Churchill Insurance has made a further move into the intermediary market by becoming a member of AA I...
Quality fleet.
Risk management is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of insurance not least fleet insurance where the pressure is on within companies to keep fleet-running costs - including insurance - to the absolute minimum, says Andrew Newman.
Travel bargain.
Broker Brands has launched an updated version of its travel insurance quotation system for brokers, ...
Drake: claims washed up?
Q With regard to Drake going into liquidation, can you tell me what is likely to happen if one of our clients needs to file a claim?
Experian - new online quoting.
Information solutions provider Experian has launched an Internet-enabled insurance quotation system ...
Hire firm exploits Dimond.
Accidentcare, which runs the credit hire emergency car scheme for the Association of British Insurer...
Study highlights fraud issue.
According to new research by Royal & SunAlliance, two-thirds of those surveyed believe people would ...
End of the line for dual pricing.
The issue of dual pricing is the thorn in the side of the insurance industry, and it is time something was done about this practice over which reputation - along with business - is won and lost.
Appointment at Key Choice.
Tim Giles and Sally Williams (above) have joined Key Choice, the marketing services group of Compute...
Appointment at Fortis Insurance.
Cathie Bruce (above) is the new sales and marketing director of Fortis Insurance, which Fortis forme...
Newcastle lawyers move.
Two of the three partners of the insurance law practice Linsley & Mortimer of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ha...