Pool Re is monitoring developments in the investigation into yesterday’s incident in Westminster. Our thoughts are, first and foremost, with those people who were caught up in it, and we pay tribute to the speedy and brave response of our emergency services. To date, no claims have been received by Pool Re and so no […]

Pool Re is delighted to sponsor the Airey Neave Book Prize, now in its second year.  The Neave Prize is awarded annually to the work of non-fiction which the Judging Panel considers to have made the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism. Pool Re is proud to support […]

      The arrest of Erol Incedal near the Tower of London in 2013 revealed a new threat to the country: The return of fighters from Syria who wanted to harm the UK. The problem of returning fighters however was not new. International terrorism from the 1980s was heavily shaped by those involved in, […]

This is the third edition of the Pool Re Terrorism Frequency Report and the last in 2018. We examine whether the threat of returning foreign fighters is greater than that posed by Islamist extremists who have not been to the so-called Caliphate (including the challenge presented by the large numbers of those now being released from […]

Thank you, Chairman. Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, and a warm welcome from me to Pool Re’s 25th Annual General Meeting. This is my fifth year at Pool Re, and my fifth AGM. As I reflect on that, I am struck that it gets more difficult every year, as I try to fit into 10 […]