Ep141 Building a bigger welcome mat: Matthew Moore and Caroline Wagstaff of the LMG

Normally I have C-suite guests on the programme who are working for companies with tens, hundreds and sometimes low thousands of employees. They generally write between the tens, hundreds of millions or single-digit billions in annual gross premiums.

But today’s guests are working on behalf of a marketplace that directly employs 47,000 people and many more offshore.

It writes well over a hundred billion dollars in gross premiums and that is a number set to rise sharply as the market continues to harden.

This is because together CEO Caroline Wagstaff, and Chairman Matthew Moore, run the London Market Group, the LMG.

The LMG is the London Market’s trade body bringing together Lloyd’s and its constituent underwriting businesses, the London company market and the brokers to represent the whole London insurance and reinsurance Market to the outside world and to lobby on its behalf.

London is facing a demographic squeeze where its stock of over 50-year-olds exceeds its number of those under the age of thirty.

In this lively episode Matthew and Caroline recount the nature of this problem and, more importantly, articulate the plan they have formulated to address it.

We also talk about the prospects for the UK regulator to have to take the market’s competitive position into consideration when making and implementing new rules as key financial services reform legislation makes its way through the UK Parliament.

The agenda includes the prospect of the UK seeking to develop a ‘red carpet’ welcome to rival that of more nimble and proactive jurisdictions such as Bermuda and Singapore.

The continuing iterations of ongoing work to further the London Market brand under the London Makes it Possible banner are another topic of discussion.

Matthew and Caroline are passionate and really engaging speakers and this episode will give you a great sense of where the market’s collective marketing and lobbying efforts are being channelled both now and in coming years.

LINKS
We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo:
https://www.advantagego.com/

We also thank this Episode’s advertising supporter Oxbow Partners
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