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David Osler
Finance Editor
David specialises in the white collar shipping services scene, including law firms, banks, insurers, and trade associations, and also turns his hand to piracy, sanctions and industrial relations stories as necessary.
A London-born British and Swiss dual national, he was educated at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, and has academic qualification in politics, sociology, economics and international relations.
Three times voted Seahorse Club shipping news journalist of the year, he has also twice been longlisted for the Orwell Prize, Britain’s premier non-fiction literary award, and twice shortlisted as Periodical Publishers’ Association business journalist of the year, the highest honour in trade press journalism.
He has worked for Lloyd’s List since 1996, making him the longest-serving member of staff, although he doesn’t like to mention that more than three or four times a week at most. Unless it’s strictly necessary.
He has also written for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and New Statesman, and has appeared on all of Britain’s main television and radio news programmes.
He is a member of the Labour Party, Amnesty International and National Council for Civil Liberties, and supports the charitable work of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and the Trussell Trust network of foodbanks.
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Latest From David Osler
Steamship Mutual’s Rotterdam subsidiary ‘not done deal’ just weeks before Brexit, Rynsard admits
Meanwhile, Standard Ireland up and running since January and already writing 40% of Standard’s business, according to Robert Drummond, soon to be managing director of Dublin outpost
Gard and North claim gains as P&I renewal round closes
Gard grew in most geographical areas, while North topped the 200m gt mark for the first time ever.
P&I leaders forecast rate rises after quiet renewal season
‘We are looking at renewing a similar amount of tonnage to what we had 12 months ago. A small amount of poorly performing business is being managed out of the club, and we are welcoming a few new members in,’ said Mark Collins of Standard Club
Guardian Navigation switches to Skuld
The 2019 P&I renewal round has been described as ‘the most boring renewal season ever’ by one P&I club chief executive
P&I clubs refuse to collect German insurance premium tax
In 2013, there was even a threat to treat income pooling arrangements as de facto insurance schemes, thus leaving charter income subject to the impost and threatening to kill up to 1,000 KG companies. But the industry’s collective political clout proved sufficient to waylay that threat
What next for Lloyd’s marine insurance?
While underwriters have been heard to talk tough before, diminished capacity may mean that this time round they can make higher premiums stick. Indeed, a consensus seems to be emerging that they may represent the only way forward