Previous events

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Webinar: Behavioural Bias in Investing.

  • Thu 29 Apr 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
    • Jon Bell, Newton Investment Management

Join us for a session looking at behavioural biases in investing and how they can be overcome.

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Annual General Meeting 2021

  • Wed 28 Apr 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
  • Online

We need you! (To get down to our AGM, that is...)

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Webinar: A Global Macro Economic View On Financial Markets in 2021 And Going Forward

  • Tue 27 Apr 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
    • Nick Dougal, Fidelity FundsNetwork
    • James Bird, Fidelity FundsNetwork

Nick Dougal and James Bird of Fidelity FundsNetwork give a Macro Economic Presentation on Fidelity's view on Financial Markets for second half of this year and beyond.

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Webinar: Understanding Real Assets – Fake v Real Infrastructure

  • Tue 20 Apr 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Nick Scullion, Foresight

This webinar looks at the different ways in which clients can access infrastructure assets and why infrastructure is used as a diversifier in portfolios.

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Webinar: How Liability can arise in tort

  • Fri 16 Apr 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
    • Alan Chandler

We sell many different liability insurance policies to customers every day; Motor, Employers Liability, Public Liability, Products liability, D&O, Professional Indemnity, Cyber Liability and more - what are we protecting the customers against?

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Webinar: Peak Productivity Playbook - The Psychology of Designing Your Time & Getting More Done!

  • Tue 13 Apr 10:30 am – 11:30 am
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

Sometimes work can seem like an endless avalanche of emergencies, distractions and interruptions. Work life balance might seem like a distant promise right now. But is it possible there is an easier way?

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Webinar: Prevention over cure – mental health pandemic. What can employers do?

  • Thu 18 Mar 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Dr Philip McCrea, BHSF

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to a range of challenges for all across the globe. Increasingly, mental health issues are causing concern, with people becoming ever more isolated and fearing for their personal and professional future. The world will never be as we knew it; so adapting to the new way is increasingly important.

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Webinar: How to successfully conduct staff appraisals in the insurance industry

  • Wed 10 Mar 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Insurers, brokers, loss adjusters and IFA’s to recruit and retain quality staff. The reality is that at the moment the demand for qualified experienced quality staff in insurance far exceeds the availability of these staff in the marketplace.

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Webinar: Professional Indemnity insurance - an overview - ADDITIONAL SESSION

  • Thu 25 Feb 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This presentation provides an overview of Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance. It looks at the main case law underpinning the PI market, why the PI market is expanding in terms of number of policyholders needing the cover yet at the same time the capacity is decreasing.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal - THIRD SESSION

  • Mon 22 Feb 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. The appeal concluded on 19 November and the judgment was handed down on 15 January 2021. Four days were spent setting out starkly differing views between the FCA and insurers.

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Webinar: Sales processes, planning and pipeline management – ‘hope is not a strategy’

  • Thu 18 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

Research demonstrates what we know intuitively to be true – sales outcomes are significantly enhanced when we have effective, well documented and understood sales plans and processes.

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Webinar: An overview of commercial package insurance

  • Wed 17 Feb 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This webinar will provide a practical look into the various sections of a typical commercial package insurance policy, what is covered and what protection a commercial customer actually obtains, so that brokers, underwriters and claims staff alike can be confident when explaining the different sections of cover.

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Webinar: Broker Trading Strategies and Skills in a Hard Market

  • Thu 11 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

We are experiencing the first hard market for many years; a generation of Brokers, Insurers and Clients have never worked in a hard market.

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Webinar: How To Prevent Burnout & Promote Thriving

  • Wed 10 Feb 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

Burnout and overload an extreme but understandable response to our radically changing workplace. It can include mental, emotional and physical elements.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal - ADDITIONAL SESSION

  • Mon 08 Feb 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. The appeal concluded on 19 November and the judgment was handed down on 15 January 2021. Four days were spent setting out starkly differing views between the FCA and insurers.

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Webinar: Telephone Sales and Communication Skills

  • Thu 04 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

In the remote working and remote trading world we now live in, telephone skills have become even more important both in sales and account management.

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Webinar: Water damage - the basics

  • Wed 03 Feb 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Andrew Vincent, Polygon

The webinar will cover the basics of the survey process; How to mitigate the damage; how to measure moisture and various drying techniques.

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Webinar: Delegating For Virtual Leaders

  • Tue 02 Feb 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

How you allocate and follow up work as a leader has always been important, but for leaders that work remotely, effective delegation is even more important.

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Webinar: Professional Indemnity insurance - an overview

  • Fri 29 Jan 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This presentation provides an overview of Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance. It looks at the main case law underpinning the PI market, why the PI market is expanding in terms of number of policyholders needing the cover yet at the same time the capacity is decreasing.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal

  • Wed 27 Jan 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. It is relevant to general insurance brokers/intermediaries, their insurers, and any other market participants

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