Ep191 Simon Bird, Brit: Bumping along the top

Today’s guest is a well-known and respected senior underwriter
with a career going back forty years. Simon Bird, Group Executive
Underwriter and Active Underwriter of Brit Insurance’s Syndicate
2988, is someone who I’d heard of thirty years ago when I was a
broker, but I only ended up meeting  him twenty-nine years
later. Regular listeners will have heard his wise contributions
to the last two Monte Carlo State of Insurance and Reinsurance
episodes. The rushed timetable of Monte Carlo made me wish that
we could have a longer and more relaxed meeting to be able have
far more detailed and nuanced conversation. And here it is. This
is another vintage episode with someone who has spent a
generation leading carriers through markets, variously benign,
indifferent, soft, hard and completely dislocated. Very few
people can put today’s market and the issues of our times into
the kind of context that Simon can. But of course Simon isn’t
some kind of museum piece or insurance and reinsurance historian,
he is a hands-on underwriting leader who is very much in touch
with the market. He is also great company and his insights and
thoughts on topics as far-ranging as Ai to the structure of the
syndicated insurance marketplace are highly original and valuable
and I can highly recommend a listen. LINKS: We thank our naming
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