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Catch the wind behind insurance

The UK’s insurance industry is one of its most underappreciated assets. The City of London is home to the world’s largest concentration of insurance companies, which have evolved around the central pillar that is Lloyd’s of London. And while the rest of the UK economy might be struggling with global economic headwinds, the insurance industry is going through one of the most exciting bull markets in recent memory.

Double tailwind

Towards the end of the last decade, pricing discipline across the industry collapsed, thanks in part to over-competition. However,

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