The insurer that gives it all away w/ David Lane, MD of Ecclesiastical Insurance Ireland

So it's a very grand statement to be making.

And I'm really pleased to be able to tell you that we do actually have a big impact in societies where we operate.

So Ecclesiastical Insurance is a specialist insurer.

So we specialize in the areas of faith, which probably isn't too surprising given the name of the organization, charity, heritage, and education.

So the four core sectors that we operate in, we operate in Ireland, in the UK, in Canada, and Australia, in the general insurance market.

We also, in the UK, have a program in advisory division, and we also have an investment management business, which specializes in, I won't go into that in too much detail, but the investment management business specializes in environmentally friendly investments.

So it's always been ethical investments.

We've always been involved.

You

mentioned four pillars there.

Would you mind just repeating for me? You said faith, education? Charity and heritage.

Okay.

So...

I think we have an idea what those words mean, but maybe in the world of risk management insurance, you might just say a little sentence or two about each one of them.

Sure.

So I'll start with faith.

So faith is probably the easiest.

So we insure churches.

So the origins of the business was that it was set up about 135 years ago.

to provide insurance with the Church of England.

When we came into Ireland, we came in about 45 years ago, and we insured the Church of Ireland's portfolio, which is anything from big cathedrals, like the Christchurch Cathedral or St. Patrick's Cathedral, through to all the different parish churches around the country.

On the education side, which again is a natural fit with the whole kind of church area, we ensure anything from third level through primary or through secondary schools down to primary schools.

And that's what we do in Ireland.

So we have a collection of different kind of educational establishments that we've ensured.

Heritage to us is any building that's more than 100 years old.