Perspectives is our leadership team’s latest thinking within the industries we operate in.
Scale within markets and across the region has a demonstrable effect on perceptions of brand quality. However, beyond scale, a distinctive experience offered by brands also carries considerable weight in recognition of brand quality. Our 2024 Global Top 50 P&C Re Brand Rankings highlight the differentiated brand experience of reinsurers, offering insights into overall brand performance.
Specialist managers excel in private markets, while diversified firms leverage strong brands to dominate retail alternatives. With rising competition, the landscape is shifting as firms expand product availability and outreach.
Today’s winning asset managers differentiate themselves by contemporary products, captive distribution, and a strategic focus on core capabilities despite a challenging marketplace.
In the dynamic realm of US Group Life & Disability insurance, insurers continuously adapt to challenges. Key priorities include modernising technology, embracing data analytics, and understanding customers.
The anticipation is for a moderation in the number of IFA firms selling to Consolidators in 2023. Strategic buyers, aligning their offerings with the more comprehensive requirements of selling adviser-owners, are likely to experience a renewed influx in their prospect pipelines.
Good brands bring competitive benefit. This is especially true in reinsurance, an industry where partnerships and capabilities are critical to out-performance longer term. Our 2023 Top 50 global brand rankings for Property & Casualty reinsurance offer insight into overall brand performance.
Specialist alternatives managers have taken the lion’s share of alternatives inflows and enjoyed the associated high margins, but the shift to focus on retail demand for alternatives plays right into the hands of traditional asset managers.
Retail channels drive growth and innovation in asset management but developing a clearly aligned product and distribution strategy is critical.
Brand quality is a critical element of asset manager propositions, offering a relevant customer-centred dimension in a performance-dominated world. A reputable brand can deliver competitive differentiation and embody trust, although also places a responsibility that managers live up to expectations.
The effects of climate change are increasingly evident. Who better than re/insurers – blessed with the advantages of data, expertise, and balance sheets – to play an outsized role in driving broad-based adaptation to changing global climate, as well as the transition to net zero?
