Specialty

Specialism at the heart of Howden

Our Specialty teams work at the heart of international markets, creating bespoke insurance for the most complex risks

As product specialists, our real value is in the expertise we bring to products and programmes through design, delivery, and ongoing servicing.

Whether clients need retail, direct, wholesale, captive, reinsurance, Howden has the expertise and resource to deliver the best world markets have to offer across a complete spectrum of specialties.

We combine our specialty breadth and depth with flexibility in our servicing delivery, to build strong, reliable, long-term relationships between clients and their markets.

This practical and constructive approach attracts a client base that includes national and multinational corporates, governments, financial institutions and insurance professionals in over 150 territories worldwide.

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Broking without boundaries

We work as one international team to achieve the best possible results. Our Specialty hubs in key international insurance markets, connect clients to our entire global team.

You can find specialist product contacts around the world on the relevant Specialty team pages.

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Introducing Captive Services

We are dedicated specialists, experienced in providing captive formation and management services.

We are Guernsey and Bermuda regulated and hold professional qualifications in insurance, accounting, compliance, and company secretarial services.

Our client portfolio is diverse, ranging from large multinational entities to private entrepreneurs and middle tier companies, of which some are public limited companies and others are privately owned. Our clients also include a charity and a Community Interest Company.

We have clients operating in financial services, real estate, manufacturing, transport, waste management and energy.

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We're personally invested

Our business success is built on our people, their outstanding long term relationships with clients and markets are fundamental to the develop product solutions that evolve with clients’ risk management needs.

Employee ownership opportunities encourage the best minds to join Howden and it then empowers them to make the extra commitments in time and effort to innovate and go further for clients.

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The Future

Specialty insurance is where insurance began and technology’s speed and accuracy is creating new opportunities for specialist solutions that align clients and markets.

Innovation through our insurtech and digital projects is a long-term commitment driven by dedicated experts who work closely with our trading teams. Get in touch to find out more about our x Trade team.