Ep135 Albert Benchimol: An appetite for growth

Today’s guest is someone who, despite being the CEO of a very
prominent publicly-quoted global speciality insurer and
reinsurer, has been keeping himself out of the media spotlight
for the last couple of years. This is because like many other
leaders in our world, Albert Benchimol CEO of AXIS Capital has
been busy overseeing underwriting remediation and a wholesale
re-set of his business’s strategic positioning as the market has
transitioned. Now I’m delighted to announce that he has come out
the other side and has agreed to be on the show. The Albert I
encountered in this episode was someone looking forward to the
future with a lot of energy, optimism and enthusiasm. No subjects
were off the menu, so after swiftly polishing off the elephant in
the room topic of Axis’s widely publicised decision to pull out
of property reinsurance, we expanded out into a really broad
discussion that encompasses, rate adequacy, the rise of the MGA,
inflation, ESG and industry diversity to name but a few. Albert’s
now been CEO of AXIS for over a decade and it’s that experience
and sense of authority that I think shines through every minute
of this lively encounter. We thank our naming sponsor
AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com/ We also thank this
Episode’s advertising supporter Oxbow Partners
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