All articles by Ronan Mccaughey
Ronan Mccaughey
Big interview: Royal Londons Debbie Kennedy on growing the protection market
Debbie Kennedy, head of protection at Royal London, shares her views with Ronan McCaughey on ways to grow the protection market; the debate about double commission for advised sales; and what Royal London is doing to encourage product simplicity and digital innovation
Attracting employers to the UK group risk market
Paul Avis, marketing director at Canada Life Group Insurance, explains that aside from Death in Service Pension schemes (DISP), the UK group risk market is growing by premiums and employees, but not generally by new employers purchasing UK group risk benefits. In Aviss opinion the industry faces a clear challenge in addressing this.
MetLife reveals plan to separate US retail business
MetLife has announced a plan to pursue the separation of a substantial portion of its US retail segment.
Frank ONeill appointed Swiss Re UK & Ireland CEO
Frank O’Neill has been appointed Swiss Re UK & Ireland CEO with effect on 1 February 2016.
Turkeys strong fundamentals to drive life market growth
The outlook for the Turkish life insurance market is broadly positive and the sectors gross written premium is expected to rise from TRY3.8bn in 2014 to TRY6.1bn in 2019, according to a report available from Timetrics Insurance Intelligence Center (IIC).
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Medical insurance to drive UAE insurance growth in 2016
Nexus Group, a major financial adviser in the GCC region, has predicted a greater adoption of medical insurance policies, a higher uptake of pension schemes, and increased penetration of individual savings plans will lead insurance trends in the UAE during 2016.
Fitch warns that Solvency II metrics have limited use in insurer ratings
Solvency II (S2) metrics are not comparable between insurers due to their different calculation approaches and will therefore not be a direct driver of ratings, according to Fitch Ratings.
Sun Life Financial appoints new chief investment officer
Sun Life Financial has appointed Randolph (Randy) Brown as its chief investment officer.
Kotak Mahindra launches participating whole life plan
Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance has launched Kotak Premier Life Plan, a limited premium payment participating whole life plan.
UnderwriteMe CEO outlines the comparison services strategic focus
Martin Werth, the CEO of UK protection technology business, UnderwriteMe, has said he expects AIG Life to be live on UnderwriteMes comparison service platform in Q2 2016.