Ep195 Adrian Cox: Beating Inertia

As CEO of Beazley, Adrian Cox runs one of our sector’s
fastest-moving and best-rated insurance businesses and so any
time I can get him behind a microphone and talking to me is time
well spent. In the past year this firm has pioneered the
placement of cyber cat bonds, undergone a major restructure with
the formation of a US excess and surplus lines insurance company
and made the most of the new opportunities being thrown up in
North American property by more than doubling its underwriting
volume there. In this podcast we talk about all these and an
awful lot more. Adrian is excellent company and exudes the kind
of confidence that senior brokers complain that they sometimes
find lacking in the modern insurance and reinsurance market. In
our talk we get a clear sense of Adrian’s insurance philosophy
Here is someone with a clear way of understanding the insurance
world and the confidence and authority to go and execute when he
feels the time is right. Given the rare series of opportunities
the global market is presenting brave and decisive underwriters
in 2024, I can highly recommend a detailed listen. NOTES Adrian
mentions Lloyd’s and now Beazley itself as being ‘A-fifteen’ in
size. This a reference to AM Best’s fifteen-point Financial Size
Category scale. XV is the largest size, denoting Capital and
Surplus of $2bn or more. LINKS We thank our naming
sponsor AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com/ We also
thank our audio advertiser, Aventum Group Please contact
them on: voi@aventumgroup.com