A DECADE OF UNDERWRITING: Into the future

Evolution not revolution

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Andrew Wibberley casts his eyes over the past 10 years - and takes a look forward

This was the decade in which we lived in the future - as on 21 October 2015 we enjoyed the date that was leapt forward to in Back to the Future. Sadly we saw no hoverboards, and in reality, to the outside world at least, the underwriting landscape, has barely changed throughout the decade.  Ten years ago I was involved in a 2020 vision event (back when the phrasing was still original!). My memories of that were of much talk of underwriting from a USB stick, the relationship between genetics and underwriting and the predicted demise of the underwriter. No-one at that event predicted that ...

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