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ovae Group will continue to focus heavily on growing and refining its specialty


business, backed firmly by its reinsurers and brokers.


Speaking to Monte Carlo Today, Matthew Fosh,


CEO, Novae Group, said that the company is seeing growth through direct business, which requires the backing of reinsurers. “We’re never going to scare anyone with the


size of our balance sheet, so for us it’s about specialty, this is what we do,” he said. “As the world of reinsurance continues to be flooded with capital, the commoditisation of certain classes comes more and more. “We can’t necessarily play in that space, but


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it’s the directness where we’re seeing growth, and that requires reinsurance partners as we don’t want to take all the business on our books up front.” Fosh said that Novae had found a “good hearing” in the current market


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Matthew Fosh traditional


approach continued to access


reinsurance. “Reinsurers and brokers can see that we still


need them,” he said. “We’re not playing the same game of retaining more; we’re just looking to build a specialty book with the backing of reinsurance.” Fosh spoke of the dynamics within the


as their


Lloyd’s market, and said that an interesting dynamic of the market’s evolution was its changing make-up.


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“There’s a great deal about of chatter about


the changing make-up of Lloyd’s and the international ownership, which they would regard as ‘on strategy’,” he said. Fosh said that Novae is in an interesting position within the market as it has for years been “a family of quoted Lloyd’s vehicles with the association profile”, which might not say anything about the company’s size, but says something about its transparency and numbers. “We could regard the changes going on in


Lloyd’s as an opportunity as there’s endless chatter in the sector


merger and


acquisition (M&A) activity, but from our point of view, we’re here to grow the business, so it’s important to stay focused and not get our heads turned,” he said. “As the tectonic


plates of the industry


shift, we now find ourselves at a reinsurance conference, trying to build the business and define our competitive advantage.” n


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