Our approach is about nurturing quality rather than quantity – we arrange binding authorities and programmes for those with proven expertise in their respective areas of business

At Aon Benfield one of our group's core objectives is to nurture expertise – an approach that we bring with equal vigour to our activities in the area of binding authorities. Accordingly, our focus is as much about assisting existing customers to build their businesses as it is about adding new customers to our portfolio.

Given our approach, we expect to work in close partnership with our customers, gaining a thorough knowledge of their businesses, specialist expertise and past and current track records.

This enables us to structure individually tailored binding authorities using long term, stable markets which support customers in developing their operations by underwriting and binding business on behalf of insurers within certain agreed parameters.

Our customer base spans a wide range of specialist commercial and personal lines classes in the property and casualty arenas – from catastrophe and natural perils covers on manufactured homes to fine art and mortgage protection insurance for financial institutions – and involves numerous territories including the US, Continental Europe, the UK and Australasia.