Listening back this is an almost breathless podcast. But what’s remarkable is that it should be breathless for just under an hour.
Markel Insurance has been through enormous strategic changes in 2025 and its CEO Simon Wilson has been at the heart of them.
The reinsurance business has been exited and management structures streamlined.
Now that the heavy lifting has been done this podcast outlines the type of company Simon wants the new, revamped Markel to become.
This Episode is a great advert for the podcasting medium because no amount of words or investor presentations can be anywhere near as expressive and vivid as an executive with a clear vision and the passion and drive to get on and execute. You can hear it in every sentence.
Simon also attacks all our conversation topics with equal vigour and gusto, so AI, digitisation and facilitisation and the rise of portfolio underwriting, the fast growth of MGAs and fronting carriers as well as the prospects for the US casualty market are all analysed with great rigour in the coming hour.
It’s all candid and transparent. Everything is out on the open and nothing is off limits. It’s genuinely refreshing to hear the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar premium unit of a public company talk in no-nonsense terms about their business and the market it operates in.
I really enjoyed this one and I think you will too.
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