Insurance Post has been delivering business-critical information to the UK insurance market since 1840. Considered essential reading by senior managers in the sector, Insurance Post’s strength lies in the breadth and depth of its coverage across insurance, broking, claims, technology and risk management. Coverage of the broker market is supplemented by Insurance Age, which runs the hugely successful annual Broker Expo exhibition.
The jewel in the crown of the Insurance Post portfolio is the annual British Insurance Awards, staged at The Royal Albert Hall and attended by more than 2,200 people.
Insurance market
The UK insurance market, currently estimated to be worth £225 billion, is in constant flux and has recently been characterised by consolidation of major players. The market swings between profitable and less profitable periods, in what is known as the underwriting or insurance cycle, oscillating between soft periods of low premiums and profits and hard periods of rising premiums.
All businesses operating in this space are having to adjust to these cyclical pressures, as well as innovating and adapting to:
