Category Archives: PR

Totus Re welcomes CII call to action

Financial strength of many businesses has been damaged by the apparent absence of insurance to provide protection in the event of a pandemic. Totus Re has welcomed the call from the Chartered Insurance Institute for the industry to establish an approach to pandemics and other systemic risks that clearly sets out the scope of government intervention.

Don’t forget your comms when it comes to business continuity planning

A storm-related internet outage has Kat Mitchell reminiscing about the time when a different internet outage exposed some elephant-sized holes in the business continuity plan of a previous employer. Don’t forget your comms when it comes to business continuity planning

Good marketing can be more affordable than you think

A survey from financial analysts AKG and wealth manager Charles Stanley today said that 12% of financial advisers are worried about marketing costs and how they will attract new clients. However, good marketing is a lot more affordable than they perhaps think, writes Kat Mitchell.

Rise of the small marketing consultancy

A look through my Linkedin feed sees the sad story of many great marketing professionals now finding themselves out of work. With few senior level marketing roles being advertised, are we soon to see many one-man-band marketing consultancies launching and short-term in-house contract roles advertised asks Kat Mitchell?

Totus Re cautions against single peril view to societal risk

Totus Re is fully supportive of the Pandemic Re steering group but it does not go far enough. In our rush to treat the symptom we need to make sure we don’t fall into the trap of simply adding a pandemic silo to the government’s ad-hoc architecture of guarantees and backstops in a game of endless whack-a-mole.