LATEST NEWS
Way forward in the insurance market – Westminster Business Forum
We are delighted to announce that one of our Senior Consultants, Madeleine Matos, will be speaking at the Westminster Business Forum on Wednesday 10th February 2021. She will be discussing the way forward in the insurance market following the recent FCA proposals.
Press sector financial sustainability – DCMS
Economic Insight has been commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to carry out a mixed method research project to better understand the financial sustainability of the UK press sector. DCMS leads on media policy within the UK, which includes supporting a sustainable and world-leading press sector (including national, regional and local news, both in print and online). Our primary and secondary research will help inform policy in this area and enrich the evidence base.
Economic Services Panel of the Hong Kong Competition Commission
We are pleased to announce that Economic Insight has been appointed to the Economic Services Panel of the Hong Kong Competition Commission. We look forward to working with the Commission on future competition-related issues.
Economic Insight Promotions
We are delighted to announce several promotions at Economic Insight: – Anthony Zhang, Kyran Stewart, Marie Theres Kraihammer and Sarah Barker have all been promoted from Analyst to Consultant. – Aastha Mantri and Paul Stoddart have been promoted from Senior Consultant to Principal. Their promotions recognise the fantastic contributions they have made to Economic Insight through their skills and ambition, and importantly their support for their colleagues and clients. Well done!
Market study of the Non Household Water Retail Market
Economic Insight is developing a market study of the Non Household Water Retail Market on behalf of the UK Water Retailer Council. This will help inform how the wider approach to the NHH retail market might be reformed, in order to help achieve better outcomes for all stakeholders.
Beesley Lecture sponsorship
We are delighted to be sponsoring Lecture Four of the Beesley Lecture Series 2020 on Thursday 26th November, which will be chaired by one of our Principals, Ian Thompson. The lecture will begin at 16:00 and will be looking into “Lessons from COVID-19 in protecting consumers and supporting the Net Zero transition”.
Benefits tracker for ENWL
Earlier this year, we supported ENWL in developing a tool to measure the Social Return on Investment of its Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability (SECV) strategies. As part of this, we developed an easy-to-use Excel model which uses financial proxies to estimate the value to society of their various projects. This approach helped them go beyond outputs measurement and Willingness to Pay estimation techniques.
We are pleased to see the company’s ranking improve from 12th to 8th in this year’s SECV evaluation, and to be working with them again on this year’s submissions.
Natalie Luyt joins Economic Insight
We are delighted to welcome Natalie Luyt to Economic Insight. Prior to joining us, Natalie completed her BA and BCom Honours in Economics at The University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and her MSc in Management and Strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has previously interned at another economic consultancy where she gained valuable experience on competition matters.
CAT sets trial dates for trucks cartel litigation
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has recently set the first and second trial dates in relation to the on-going trucks cartel litigation. Royal Mail Group and BT’s trial is set for 2022 and Dawsongroup’s trial is set for 2023. Economic Insight are the economic advisors to these claimants.