Lloyd's China premiums up to $290mn: Nelson

Lloyd's chairman John Nelson believes that gross written
premiums on the Lloyd's China platform passed 2bn yuan
($289.8mn) in 2016.
That would represent growth of more than 152 percent from 2015,
when 792mn yuan was written on the platform. Some 31 Lloyd's
managing agents are now physically present in Shanghai and in
Beijing.
In an interview with China Daily, Nelson described
China as "perhaps the most important growth market in the long
term for Lloyd's".
"We've got the core of...