Adrian Leonard
Leonard is Leader's Edge foreign desk chief.
P&C
Dear FIO...
Two pence worth on the Federal Insurance Office’s request for information on a...
November 1, 2022
Industry
Consolidation Creates Interesting Dynamics in London Market
Q&A with Henry MacHale, Chief Strategy Officer, Aspen Group
October 9, 2022
P&C
Reinsurance on the Ropes
For the first time, alternative capital investments into the reinsurance sector ...
September 29, 2022
Industry
Listen to the Wind Blow
What does it take for technology’s promise to become practical?
September 1, 2022
Industry
Insurance–but Not as We Know It
There’s an explosion of parametric insurance, which is triggered by unbiased m...
July 19, 2022
Industry
The Fragility of Certainty
Losses arising from Putin’s War will be manageable for all but the reckless, t...
May 31, 2022
Industry
Specialty Evolution
MGAs (and the many other types of third-party underwriters) are flourishing vers...
May 5, 2022
P&C
What’s Driving Big Ransomware Paydays?
Hackers have learned how to target companies with high cyber policy limits.
January 18, 2022
Industry
In Defense of the Vilified
Ultimately everyone will have to pay, but for now insurers are the sitting ducks...
November 30, 2021
Health+Benefits
In Praise of Private Healthcare
My journey with Britain’s National Health Service.
September 30, 2021
Industry
A Market, Not a Company
What distinguishes Lloyd’s when it looks just like an insurance company?
July 20, 2021
P&C
Excess Exported
Legal frameworks that allow U.S.-style class-action suits are proliferating arou...
June 1, 2021
Industry
Insurers’ Double Climate-Change Challenge
Quantifying the risk and addressing the realities of a no-carbon approach are da...
March 31, 2021
Industry
Diversity in London?
As the right thing to do (and the smart thing to do) the London risk market fina...
February 28, 2021
Industry
The Women Will Even Be Allowed to Eat in the Restaurant
After centuries as an old boys’ club, Lloyd’s is finally addressing discrimi...
February 28, 2021
Industry
Risk in a Test Tube
Lloyd’s has embarked on a controversial effort to introduce underwriting-relat...
January 19, 2021
Industry
A Breakdown of Lloyd's Blueprint Two Yields Some Hope
Here's where it stands.
November 30, 2020
Industry
Let's End the Blame Game
The global pandemic is no one’s fault. Let’s not prolong the distress by sui...
May 31, 2020
Industry
To Insure the Uninsurable
Public-private partnerships are the solution to pandemic economics.
April 27, 2020
Industry
Bloodied but Unbowed
The ILS market emerges from growing pains stronger than ever.
March 25, 2020
P&C
Lloyd’s Burns Off Cyber Fog
The London market has mandated some clarity on cyber cover, but a coordinated gl...
March 1, 2020
Industry
A Cautionary Tale
Oscar Wilde said he could resist anything but temptation. Veteran Leader’s Edg...
January 14, 2020
Industry
Click. Bind. Repeat.
London portals make placing small business for U.S. brokers easy and profitable....
March 28, 2018
Industry
From Trading Floor to Keyboard
One-on-One with Lloyd's Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown
February 28, 2018
Industry
Follow the Money
While the losses from this fall’s catastrophic events were massive, financial ...
December 1, 2017
Brokerage Ops
It Takes a Team to Challenge the Norm
Toss the transactional mindset. Adopt a consultancy before some startup makes to...
June 25, 2017
Industry
Getting Cozy with Capital
As capital providers move closer to the risks they cover, intermediaries are get...
October 6, 2016
Industry
Under British Rule
New insurance policy disclosure regulations over there add more liabilities for ...
October 6, 2016
Industry
The International Soap Opera That Won’t End
The European Union’s new Solvency II regulatory regime has dragged on longer t...
March 23, 2016
P&C
Blind Faith
Wreckless use of risk modeling may be a systemic risk to our industry.
November 30, 2015
Industry
Black Magic
The alchemists of alternative capital shape the insurance fabric of the future a...
March 23, 2015
Industry
Hitting the Alt Key Hits Commissions
Reinsurance brokers feeling change. Hits to retail brokers coming. Could alterna...
February 24, 2015
Industry
Conventional Reinsurers Move into Alternative Capital
Everest Re takes the plunge.
February 24, 2015
Industry
The Katrina Effect
The storm tightened the conventional market and made the alternative capital mar...
February 24, 2015
Industry
A Bluffer’s Guide to Alternative Capital
Financial wizards create their ingredients for their alternative capital stew.
February 24, 2015
Industry
The Epicenter
Its culture of fairness keeps the British capital at the center of everything.
September 28, 2014
Industry
20:25 Vision
Lloyd’s new chairman, John Nelson, focuses on brokers and sets his sights on e...
September 11, 2012
Lifestyle
Small, But Not Small-Minded
Jörg Schmidt is the captain of his own ship, keeping his international brokerag...
November 24, 2010
Lifestyle
Righting the Ship
Graham Clarke builds London’s employee-owned Miller with publicly owned discip...
May 1, 2010
