Ep206 Duncan Dale CEO Dale Underwriting Partners: Excited by the Opportunities

Today’s podcast is a real tour de force with the founding CEO of
a maturing Lloyd’s market business that is starting to come into
its own in its eleventh year of trading.


Fresh from a takeover by blue-chip private equity investor CVC
and now boasting a sub-90 percent combined ratio and $450mn in
capacity for 2024, Duncan Dale, CEO of Dale Underwriting
Partners, is full of confidence and is excited about the
opportunities that the Market is currently throwing up for his
firm.


In many ways Dale Underwriting partners is a microcosm of the
Lloyd’s of the last ten years. The market of the twenty-teens was
a difficult one in which to start up, but patience and
persistence have finally started to pay off.


The investment by CVC last year was rightly reported as a
re-affirmation, not just of Duncan’s business, but of the
continued attractiveness of the Lloyd’s platform itself.


This discussion is fun and is a wonderful dissection of the state
of the market.


It’s also an underwriting masterclass with a canny trader sharing
his long experience and deep understanding of the US casualty
insurance and reinsurance market, the discussion and debate of
which has been hogging the headlines for most of the last 24
months.


Listen on and hear about the opportunities that are exciting
Duncan now that he has grown the underwriting platform and
attracted the capital to make the most of them.


NOTES:


When Tom Bolt was at Lloyd’s his job title was Director of
Performance Management.


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