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With the cost of living crisis, increased regulatory pressure and an ever-growing range of risks, the pressure on insurance brokers is arguably higher than ever before. In this chat with Simon Scott-Nelson, Co-Founder of Wellity I ask:

• What is financial anxiety and why is it different from stress?
• Why can administrative tasks lead to poor mental health for brokers and sales professionals?
• What are the signs of burn-out and which personality types are most at risk?
• Whether company wellness policies do enough to tackle tangible issues such as financial pressure and an overflowing workload?

In this update: BIBA welcomes government flood guidance and Iprism joins Acturis.

Insurance Museum Chairman Reg Brown on how to get the next generation engaged with the industry as a career choice, what we can learn from the past and why the museum has chosen fire insurance for its online exhibition in September.

In this update: Data Breaches, Small Business Insurance Survey, Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner.

In this bulletin: InsureTech urban jungle drives change in the motor market, Seventeen Group expands in Scotland and why there is less reassurance capital around in 2022.

In this update: scientists warn of California megaflood, Brown & Brown grows healthcare team and USAA introduces crash detection technology.

Head of financial institutions at Travelers Europe, Walid Youssef, looks at some of the biggest issues facing financial clients in the next six months: higher inflation; growing risk in the world of ESG; geopolitical risk and central banks’ retreat from quantitative easing. What do these issues mean for underwriters and brokers, as well as financial clients?

In this update, a head of retail underwriting at Zurich, Jensten Group’s fourth deal this month and LV suffers from heatwave.

Is insurance broking a profession that can be compared to accountancy and law? A recent CII survey found that 60% of customers think it is, with even more thinking that brokers already have to be qualified.

In this debate Insure TV asks whether insurance brokers should have to be qualified. We ask:

• Will a mandatory qualification unfairly disadvantage small brokers and neurodiverse individuals?
• Is enough being done to protect the end-customer from bad-broking?
• What could a transition to a mandatory qualification look like?

Joining us to discuss are:

• Anna Wilkinson, Relationship Director, 1Stop Insurance
• Yasmin Carter-Esdale, Development Underwriter, Hiscox
• Chris Sulman, Head of Talent Acquisition, Konsileo

Responsible for some £300bn in assets, Dafria discusses the outlook for inflation, rates and debt and what this means for investments, liabilities and insurers. All against a backdrop of geopolitical turmoil.