ALM Chairman, Alan Lovell, will be hosting the lunch and he will introduce our guest speakers Mark Geoghegan, the managing director of the Insurance Insider magazine. The Insurance Insider is a highly informative trade magazine which covers both the worldwide insurance and reinsurance markets and the Lloyd’s market. It is a highly influential magazine that is read by professionals across the insurance industry. Mark will be talking about the Insurance Insider, how the industry has dealt with the 2017 catastrophe losses, the 2018 January renewals, and what is currently going on in the corporate and alternative capital spaces. Our second guest-speaker will be Andrew Colcomb, a director and syndicate analyst at Argenta Insurance Research Ltd, who will be discussing issues such as the 2015 results, and the development of the open years of 2016 and 2017, as well as any other topical issues of the time. Both speakers will speak for about 15 minutes and will then answer questions.