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Jon Bowden

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Hi guys

I've been keen to change industries for a while now and I have just secured a job at a large general insurance consultancy team :D , leaving behind my 4 years of investment consulting ( primarily for pension schemese).

I'd like to be as prepared as I can for starting and if possible hit the ground running with some background knowledge on insurance. I've got 7 CTs and have just failed CA1 so anything from historic notes is already in my head of course ;)

Does anyone have any sources from which I could gleam some information? Preferably training stuff as opposed to insurance industry news. I am aware of www.insuranceday.com

Thanks

Jon
 
general insurance background reading

i'd say ST7 and ST8 would be a pretty good start. You'll probably know quite alot of it already, but generally i'd say it would be quite useful for anyone starting out in general insurance to read these. :)
 
Congratulations!

Not sure if this answers your question but if you have the time these are both useful papers to read about gi actuarial work:

http://www.actuaries.org.uk/sites/all/files/documents/pdf/grip_report_jan07.pdf
http://www.actuaries.org.uk/sites/all/files/documents/pdf/sm20060327.pdf

Reading up on Solvency II might be useful. The consultancies themselves give good summaries e.g.
http://www.towerswatson.com/solvencyii/about

Swiss Re does some really excellent publications which might be helpful (although they often quite specific):
http://www.swissre.com/publications/
 
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