William Hawkins: Director of Research - Europe, KBW: How insurers think: the equity analyst‘s view (147)

While insurtech, start-up funding and data and technology developments are important to all of us, we also need to understand how the major insurers make money, what their needs are from technology and how they address the challenge of change.   William Hawkins, Director of Research for Europe at investment bank KBW, joins Matthew to share insights from his team's research into the mainstream world of insurance.   With incumbent insurers spending an annual IT budget of $200 billion how much is earmarked for innovation, and how should a technology company attract insurers as clients?

Talking points include:

• The basics of how insurers make money
• Why incumbent insurers struggle to innovate
• What senior executives think about insurtech
• MGAs and new distribution models
• Which emerging technologies could become the norm

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Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives

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The Learning Objectives for this podcast are:

• Realise what is holding some incumbents back from innovating
• Understand what the linear adaptation model is and how to break free of it
• Discern some technologies that are receiving investment in the insurance industry

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