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Lauren Johnson

Lauren Johnson

Head of Funds at Lloyd's (FAL) at Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions, a qualified actuary and Cambridge graduate specializing in capital, reinsurance and ILS.

Sep 28, 2026

Ed SaulMODERATOR
17:41
Are you able to sort of give a bit of a, a background to how those mechanisms work?
17:46
Sure.
17:46
So the Lloyd's standard mechanism is a, um, year of account is open for three years.
17:51
So in general speaking, you're only ever exposed to three years.
17:56
So if we think of, for example, casualty sidecars, which are quite in vogue at the moment, the biggest, um, question mark I hear over them is how, how you exit, how you get your money back.
18:07
Whereas in Lloyd's, it's a very sort of well-trodden path that I would say 99% of syndicates at the end of the three years will close naturally into the following year of account, and that's a very governed process.
18:19
So you require an external actuary to sign off the s- um, reserves.

22 MINS LATER

Ed SaulMODERATOR
40:16
Um, L- Lauren, if you, if you had a, a magic wand, I guess thinking ILS but also Lloyd's, w- what sort of, uh, developments would you like to see, um, in terms of improving your experience and usability of, of both?

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