Ep 67 Charles Mathias Group CRO Fidelis: A market not lacking capital, but profit

This week’s guest is a longstanding and integral member of one of
the most successful underwriting teams in the specialty insurance
and reinsurance world.


Charles Mathias was an original member of staff at Lancashire and
is now a core member of the team at Fidelis.


As Chief Risk officer and board member he has total visibility of
Fidelis’s strategy and here he doesn’t duck any questions.


I was surprised by how open he was with me about which segments
of the market the now capital-loaded Fidelis is finding most
attractive as well as its approach to developing proprietary
technology.


Again he is completely transparent about the special culture and
work ethic that has made Richard-Brindle led carriers so
distinctive, and so successful in the past 15 years.


This longstanding market practitioner is also incredibly polite
and good humoured company.


All this makes this episode one not to miss for anyone who wants
to learn the secrets of underwriting success in the hardening
market of 2021.


NOTES


Charles refers to a charitable foundation, he is of course
referring to the Fidelis Foundation.


LINKS


We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo - enabling an enterprise
view of exposure:


https://www.advantagego.com/


We also thank Claims Direct Access (CDA) for their support today:


https://www.claimsdirectaccess.com/