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.

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