Partners&
About
Partners& is a Chartered insurance broker providing specialist insurance, employee benefits, risk management and claims advice to businesses and private clients.
As a next generation insurance advisory business, Partners& combines the best traditions of broking, such as technical advice and relationship, with modern thinking and intelligent use of technology, to enhance the client experience and create a dynamic workplace for its talented team.
We work in partnership with our clients as their risk protection advisers to provide holistic solutions for their business and personal insurance needs. We get on the client’s agenda and see the world from their perspective.
Our aim is to challenge the status quo to ensure our clients have the right risk management measures in place. We provide the right level of support and guidance to ensure that their insurance programme performs as intended.
Team Members
Nick Jones Cert CII
Managing Partner
Roz Wright
Client Director
Paul Monaco Cert CII
Client Director
Content
Risk Management is an enabler for growth
It’s a hackneyed phrase that insurance is a necessary evil. That can’t be said about risk management. Actually, effective risk management enables your business to make better decisions, avoid the typical pitfalls and deliver on its plan. Isn’t that how we all want to manage our business? A great analogy is Formula 1. People often think […]
Calling It All Off: Cancellation Insurance for Festivals
With the worsening unpredictability of British weather and terrorist threats increasing, arts organisations and events companies across the country are shoring themselves up with cancellation insurance. Even if it’s a free event with no ticket revenue at stake, cancellation insurance can cover lost expenditure. Key risks include: Adverse weather for outdoor events: water-logging or high […]
How to manage cyber risk when insurance is hard to get
Life science businesses are facing an increasingly challenging landscape in securing cyber insurance. Cyber-attacks are spiraling in scale, frequency and ingenuity. For example, the volume of ransomware attacks increased by 150% in 2020, while the amount paid by victims of these attacks increased more than 300% in the same period.
FOCUS becomes Partners&
In the 14 months since it joined Partners&, Focus, the Oxford based specialist insurance adviser, has gone from strength to strength. It is now making the move to change its name and fully integrate with Partners&, with a view to become the UK’s best insurance advisory business.
Is your “key person” really who you think it is?
Who is the life and soul of your business? If you can name them, then you probably need key person insurance.
FCA shines a spotlight on Price Walking
Pricing rules for home and motor insurance changed from 1 January – what does it mean for you?
Home security and insurance
Helping you protect against the old and new threats to your world
Looking after your wellbeing
As we head back to a nearly normal life, whilst living with Covid-19, we’re on a mission to help our clients.
FOCUS Oxford Risk Management reach the finals of life sciences award
FOCUS Oxford Risk Management, part of Partners&, has reached the finals of the prestigious OBN Awards. The awards, now in their 13th year, celebrate the achievements of individuals and companies in the life sciences sector. Partners& is a leading insurance and employee benefits advisory business.
FOCUS: The Partners& Magazine – Autumn Edition
Whilst we still operate under the name of FOCUS, you’ll be aware that we are part of the wider Partners& group. As such, we are delighted to share with you the second edition of the Partners& magazine. Click the image below to take a look.
Underinsurance in the commercial market – what it means for your...
Underinsurance is a phrase often used when talking about home or property insurance – but did you know it applies to business insurance as well?
Driving in the EU and green cards
With travel abroad beginning to open up once again, it’s worth remembering that the regulations have changed with regards to driving abroad.
Budget 2021 and the impact on mortgages
As announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in this week’s budget, the stamp duty holiday has been extended and there is a new mortgage guarantee scheme to help first-time buyers.
The Home Office of the Future: A Checklist
If you’re not doing it all of the time, you’ll be doing it some of the time and if you’re not doing it at all you’ll be the envy of many who don’t have a choice. ‘Working from home’ sounds great and it was always the ultimate working blag… “yeah, sure you are”.
Focus ORM joins forces with Partners&
Focus Oxford Risk Management Ltd (Focus ORM), the Oxford based specialist insurance adviser, has joined forces with Partners&, a leading advisory business in the insurance marketplace. The move is in line with the Partners& strategy which combines the best traditions of broking, including exceptional technical advice and client service, with modern thinking and intelligent use of technology.
Brexit and driving in Europe from 1 January 2021
The United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on 31st January 2020 with a Withdrawal Agreement and subsequently entered into a transitional period which ended on 31st December 2020. The UK Government has announced that discussions with the EU to agree the terms of the future relationship between the two have been successful, and a trade deal has been confirmed. However, not all of the details are fully known.
The latest news from FOCUS
With a few things going on at FOCUS, we thought we’d share our latest news.
B4 Professional Services Day
It’s Professional Services Day at B4 so we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
Insurance in a hard market – what it means for your...
All types of business experience cycles of expansion and contraction, and this is particularly true of the insurance industry. A number of factors influence these cycles – and in turn, these have an impact on insurance premiums.
Coronavirus – support for re-opening your business
After some 9 weeks of lockdown, we’re beginning to see a return to what will perhaps be the new normal. This means its time to make sure your business or organisation has the right plans in place.
Coronavirus and cyber security
We’re all doing the best we can to look after ourselves, our families and our businesses during the coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing rules put in place to stop the spread of the virus and keep us all safe.
Insurance giving back to SpecialEffect
Charities have seen their income shrink because of enforced shop closures and cancelled fundraising events.
Helping you look after your mental wellbeing whilst staying at home
Today brings us to the end of almost two weeks during which our daily routines have seen dramatic changes.
Coronavirus – mental wellbeing whilst staying at home
With the challenges of managing home-schooling and looking after your family, financial pressures and worries about coronavirus itself, it’s quite understandable that your mental health and wellbeing is perhaps not top of the list.
Coronavirus and your motor insurance
Many of us are now supporting those in their communities who are impacted by COVID-19 by helping with grocery and medicine deliveries, as well as signing up to the new NHS Volunteer responder scheme.
Coronavirus and working from home
With the ever-changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more of us will begin to work from home. For some, that’s the norm – but for others, it can be a huge change and bring challenges that perhaps you didn’t think it would.
Coronavirus and mortgage worries
It is understandable that the current COVID-19 pandemic has caused many financial worries, and in some cases, financial hardship.
Coronavirus – protecting your income
Right now there is a lot of anxiety across the UK – indeed across the world – with the uncertainty of employment, or regular income playing at the forefront of the nation’s minds during the Covid-19 pandemic.
FOCUS on Giving Back to SpecialEffect
We have launched our new fundraising initiative with SpecialEffect.