Vantage points

Tony Cornell has worked in insurance for 47 years. There is not much he hasn't seen and little about which he is reticent to say. Richard Adams found him in fine form

With nearly 40 years of experience working for Commercial Union, and having advised thousands of brokers as a consultant after that, Tony Cornell is something of an industry sage. And, as readers of Professional Broking's sister title, Insurance Age, will know, he does not pull his punches in print or in person.

True to form, his assessment of the current position of the market cycle is somewhat at odds with the views of a number of insurance chief executives. He dismisses the proclamations of