Graham Village
Global Markets Editor
I started in the insurance industry in 1981 at the Mercantile & General Reinsurance Co where I was an assistant underwriter in the marine and aviation department. In 1985 I moved into journalism, working on Post Magazine and also Reinsurance Magazine, where I became editor.
I worked briefly at Lloyd’s List before joining Jim Bannister’s DYP Group, writing and editing various insurance newsletters. I have now worked for Informa since 1995, editing insurance newsletters such as the Re Report before joining Insurance Day in 2009.
My brief as global markets editor is to cover more detailed stories for the publication, tapping into the statistical information and data that the insurance industry provides but does not always publicise. I handle data-based content such as Companies House.
Latest From Graham Village
Cat Fund participation level rises again
More insurers in Florida are signing up to Cat Fund participation at the 90% level as an alternative to buying more reinsurance cover in the private market
Market manoeuvres in Florida disguise reinsurance trajectory
This year’s reinsurance renewals for Florida’s cat-hit property insurers require careful analysis but reinsurers seem to have adopted a more company-specific approach
Winners and losers hard to spot at Florida renewals
A host of specific circumstances and company moves make it a difficult renewal to read
US P&C leaders add to property cat cover
Reinsurance demand increases after the experience of the past two years
Reinsurance conditions remain good for US cedants
Major US P&C carriers have been making the most of the opportunities and appetite available in the reinsurance market to top up their reinsurance for catastrophic risk
Allianz shakes up quiet domestic UK scene
The German group’s twin acquisitions are the first major deals for some time in the UK’s non-life market