NSM Business Intelligence Unit
Staffed by dedicated analysts and researchers and backed by journalistic teams steeped in their respective industries, the NSM Business Intelligence Unit conducts top-quality business research in conjunction with our four finance titles: Insurance Times, Global Reinsurance, StrategicRISK and Engaged Investor. We focus on the specific business areas we know best. In these, our readership base, industry contacts, specialist knowledge, rigorous approach and in-house analytical skills are second to none. Quality information needs intelligent presentation and our bespoke reports set new standards for crisp, reader-friendly design and concise, no-nonsense text.
We can offer research either on a standalone basis or as part of a package that can include a bespoke report and presentation, advertising, interactive events and – where appropriate – editorial and wider press coverage. Whether your business needs to understand or connect with commercial or retail insurance brokers, reinsurers, pension schemes, risk managers or the offshore financial sector, NSM Business Intelligence can help you achieve your goal.
Our products and services
NSM Business Intelligence services fall into three main categories:
Snapshot Surveys
Interested in quickly gauging the views of a market sector, in stimulating thinking on a topic or in generating some hard statistics for marketing purposes? Our editorial and research teams can work with you to design a short questionnaire targeted at a cross-section of our readers via print, website and email cross-section. We will normally achieve a three-figure response. We can then analyse the response data for you, with – where appropriate – editorial coverage of results.
Business Research Reports
For middleweight research designed to provide real insights into your target market, assist in marketing or give factual support to a thought-leadership event, NSM offers the Business Research Report service. We will design a questionnaire to your requirements, surveying our readership panels to achieve an agreed response level – then analyse the data in detail and provide you with a high-quality bespoke report and a presentation on the findings. Editorial coverage of results is an option, where appropriate.
Business Intelligence Studies
NSM’s Business Intelligence Studies provide high-level, in-depth investigation to your exact requirements. Engaging with a discrete, influential sub-group – often one that no other brand could hope to reach – our Business Intelligence Studies will use a combination of face-to-face and telephone interviewing to explore opinions in detail. Our industry specialists will then produce a bespoke, top-quality analytical report, backed with a presentation and specific, relevant business recommendations. Editorial coverage, a national press release and linked thought-leadership events are all available as options.
Box: Recent Clients
Clients of NSM Business Intelligence include:
| Ace |
AIG |
| Allianz Cornhill |
Amlin |
| AXA |
Barclays Financial Markets |
| Blackrock |
Brit Insurance |
| British Insurance Brokers’ Association |
Broker Direct |
| Catlin |
Chubb Insurance |
| The Chartered Insurance Institute ; |
Crawford Risk Management Services |
| Credit Agricole Asset Management |
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group |
| Financial Services Skills Council |
Groupama |
| Hiscox |
J P Morgan |
| Keoghs Solicitors |
Legal & General |
| Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw |
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers |
| MetLife |
NIG |
| Norwich Union |
Polaris |
| Premium Credit |
Protiviti Independent Risk Consulting |
| RBS |
Qatar Financial Centre |
| QBE |
Swinton |
| Scott + Scott |
Travelers |
| The Welsh Development Agency |
WNS Assistance |
Our Titles:
Newsquest Specialist Media publishes four major finance titles:
Insurance Times www.insurancetimes.co.uk
Insurance Times is the voice of the UK general insurance industry, providing news, views and analysis on the whole UK general insurance industry – including commercial lines and personal lines insurers, brokers and intermediaries and the Lloyd’s market. The magazine publishes dozens of stories every week – many of them exclusives researched by our team of skilled reporters and followed up by the national press.
Insurance Times contains in-depth features explaining the implications of key stories and provides informed views and thorough technical information on topical issues such as regulatory compliance. It also published 12 monthly Times Two supplements and numerous other products, including Top 50 UK Brokers and Top 50 UK Insurers reports and an annual guide to Lloyd’s. These additional publications provide research and analysis on topics ranging from retrocession to uninsured loss recovery. Insurance Times also runs market-leading events.
StrategicRISK www.strategicrisk.co.uk
StrategicRISK helps UK, European and worldwide organisations to manage risk. It provides expert guidance on protecting the business, its balance sheet and its directors – and on meeting the needs of shareholders, employees and customers. Risk-taking is crucial for corporate success, however, and the publication also highlights the opportunities for improved risk management to deliver competitive advantage by reducing costs, attracting investment and enhancing shareholder value.
StrategicRISK’s editorial mission is to provide relevant, authoritative commentary on key risk issues in a continually changing global business environment. At the 2006 PPA awards StrategicRISK was named International Business and Professional Magazine of the Year.
StrategicRISK has close relationships with the main national and international risk management bodies, including FERMA, AMRAE and AIRMIC. It also holds a wide range of UK- and European-focused events. Key areas of expertise include: reputation and brand management; environmental protection, sustainability and corporate accountability; business continuity and crisis management; e-business security and solutions; human resource and customer relationship management; fraud detection and prevention; catastrophe and enterprise risk management; and risk transfer and retention strategies.
Global Reinsurance www.globalreinsurance.com
Global Reinsurance is the leading media brand in international reinsurance. Published monthly since 1990, the magazine is actively involved with the reinsurance community and is recognised as an authoritative source of knowledge on one of the most global of industries. Specialist journalists with years of industry experience of the sector provide in-depth analysis, while leading practitioners contribute opinion and perspective.
Global Reinsurance provides the reinsurance industry’s only real-time news service while its website content has been awarded ‘best of the web’, breaking several stories of global importance. Global Reinsurance also produces in-depth special reports, seminars, conferences, the highly successful biennial European Insurance Forum attracting delegates from around the world.
Engaged Investor www.engaged-investor.com
Researched and developed in-house by Newsquest Specialist Media, Engaged Investor is a practical, educational publication designed to help pension fund trustees, scheme managers, corporate officers, financial and HR directors and investment professionals take informed decisions about pensions scheme investment. Combining news, comment and opinion with facts, figures and research, Engaged Investor informs readers on evolving best practice and trends and empower investors to hold their advisors and service providers to account on performance.
Regular sections such as sector analysis and case studies are supported by features and supplements in which we speak the reader's language - but we also integrate the latest thinking on how to invest for the long-term successfully.
Engaged Investor offers a credible and tightly focused research and communications platform for asset managers, investment consultants, professional service providers and all those interested in trustees and institutional investors.
About our Company
Newsquest Specialist Media Ltd is an international media organisation, providing specialist business-to-business and consumer information for a diverse range of markets. We produce market-leading publications; events, including conferences, awards and exhibitions; digital services; TV programmes; directories and other information products.
The company is part of Newsquest Media Group, the UK's second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gannett Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in the United States. Gannett also owns 101 daily newspapers in the US, including USA Today, and operates 22 television stations. A dynamic business with award-winning, talented, knowledgeable and committed staff, Newsquest Specialist Media combines small company flexibility with the support and backing of one of the world's leading media organisations.
To find out more and for contact details please download the full information brochure
Contacts
Head of Business Intelligence: Michael Faulkner
Tel: +44(0)207-618-3498
Email: Michael.faulkner@newsquestspecialistmedia.com
Publisher, Insurance Times: Shan Millie
Tel: +44(0)207-618-3085
Email: shan.millie@instimes.co.uk
Publisher, Global Reinsurance and StrategicRISK: Will Sanders
Tel: +44(0)207-618-3452
Email: will.sanders@newsquestspecialistmedia.com
Executive Editor, Engaged Investor: Maggie Williams
Tel: +44(0)207-618-3487
Email: Maggie.Williams@nqsm.com
Newsquest Specialist Media
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