{"id":106996,"date":"2025-02-24T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/insurance\/ep232-nick-line-cuo-markel-international-the-magic-moment-where-underwriting-happens\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:37:14","slug":"ep232-nick-line-cuo-markel-international-the-magic-moment-where-underwriting-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=106996","title":{"rendered":"Ep232 Nick Line CUO Markel International: The Magic Moment where Underwriting Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today\u2019s episode is a real treat. With all Voice of Insurance podcasts the aim is to be able to get to a level of comfort and ease with a guest so that what we end up hearing is as close you can get to listening in on a lively conversation between two good insurance market friends in a bar.<\/p>\n<p>This week I think we managed it and that\u2019s down to my guest, Nick Line, the Chief Underwriting Officer of Markel International.<\/p>\n<p>Nick has had a fascinating career, almost all of it at Markel and one of the forerunner companies that it acquired to make its entry into the London Market in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Nick has been through markets hard and soft as well as reserving cycles plump with redundancy followed by equal and opposite inverse periods of insufficiency and strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>You could say he has seen most things \u2013 and he also seen those phenomena through different lenses as he started his career as an actuary and only more recently took a more public-facing role.<\/p>\n<p>Nick\u2019s story is Markel International\u2019s story too- as well as that of the evolving London and wider international insurance markets over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>As the market has become more technically sophisticated and reserving, pricing, capital and risk have to be measured and controlled, it has become perfectly logical that a CUO might not necessarily be someone who has written a risk in anger themselves<\/p>\n<p>We cover quite a bit of history but it is the forward-looking parts of this podcast that are the most rewarding because Nick combines all the technical smarts one would expect from an actuary with the communication skills of the best CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>His is a vision of the tech-and-data-empowered underwriter and global insurance market of the future, but one where the magic always still happens at the behest of a human insurance professional.<\/p>\n<p>Markel International has grown quickly in the hard market of the last few years and this podcast is a record of a business that has found a groove and is firing on all cylinders.<\/p>\n<p>We made this recording in Markel\u2019s London office only aided by coffee, tea and water with no beer or wine anywhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>But by the end it\u2019s almost as if the champagne were flowing as tongues and jaws were loosened and expansive ideas were unleashed on the world.<\/p>\n<p>This makes for a fun listen that is brimming with smart observations and interesting takes from Nick.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.<\/p>\n<p>We also thank audio advertiser, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-insurance-network.co.uk\/\">The Insurance Network (TIN)<\/a>,<\/strong> organiser of the highly-successful TINtech events series. 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