Views & insights

Our Views and insights page features articles, commentaries and opinion pieces on a range of topics to help you keep up to speed with the latest developments in the insurance industry.


April 18, 2023
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Captive ownership increasing in attraction as Lloyd’s looks to provide a new option

In February this year, Nick Frost, President at Davies Captive Management and Keith Nevett, Head of Business Development at Asta, attended the World Captive Conference in Miami where it became clear the demand for captive solutions is testing the appetite of fronting underwriters.
March 2, 2023

Meet our intern – Jamie Waplington

Asta is committed to ensuring that the best and brightest people are attracted to our industry and encouraged to build a rewarding career in insurance. That’s why we offer a range of opportunities for young people to work with us and gain invaluable experience. We sat down with one of our Undergraduate Placements to find out more about them, what they’d been doing, and how much they’d learnt during their time with us.
February 22, 2023
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Cyber may be the most “underwrite-able line of business”

In an interview with Reinsurance News, Josh Ladeau, Chief Executive Officer of Trium Cyber, Syndicate 1322, explains what differentiates the firm from other underwriters of cyber risk.
February 6, 2023

Asta continues to be at the heart of Lloyd’s future as it looks to 2023

Keith Nevett, Head of Business Development at Asta, reflects on the past year which has been a transformational one for the leading independent third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s.
January 16, 2023

Building the ‘first true Syndicate-in-a-box offering’

Insurance Business Magazine's Mia Wallace interviews Carbon's CEO Nick Tye about his career, the people he has learned from along the way, and the experiences that led him to establish Carbon Syndicate 4747 in early 2020.