Ep254 Emily Apple & Andreas Wichmann Alpha Insurance Analysts: Loyal Capital

Today’s guests work at a Lloyd’s Members’ Agent. Their job is to
give advice and guidance to Names, the high net worth individuals
providing underwriting capital to Lloyd’s Syndicates, and their
clients provide just under a billion pounds of capacity to the
market. There was a time around 20 years ago when such a role
might have been seen as perhaps a little quaint – one of those
odd quirks that the Lloyd’s Market seems to specialise in. Back
then the brave new Lloyd’s was focused almost exclusively on
corporate capital provision and private capital seemed to be
condemned to a managed long-term relative decline. A lot has
changed since then. These days Director and Head of Syndicate
Analysis Emily Apple and Andreas Wichmann Business Development
Director at Alpha Insurance Analysts are busy assessing a strong
pipeline of both continuing and new business opportunities in the
market as entrepreneurs rediscover the attraction of engaging a
loyal and dedicated source of meaningful underwriting funds as
part of their capital mix. New forms of tenure for Names are also
helping make them a more attractive source of capital to Managing
Agents, while investors seem finally to be gaining more awareness
of the many capital and fiscal advantages of underwriting as a
private individual. Emily and Andreas are hugely experienced,
highly knowledgeable and great company. They have a great
overview of the Lloyd’s market and its prospects for ventures new
and old and this podcast paints a detailed picture of the
opportunities in the market from an investors’ perspective.
You’ll learn a lot and if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to
become a Name and how the whole process works, this episode will
give you all the information you need. LINKS: We thank our naming
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