Financial Services

Financial services firms operate in a highly regulated environment where professional error can quickly translate into third-party loss. Alongside complex liability exposures, firms also face intense competition for talent. We advise a wide range of financial services firms, from corporate service providers to stockbrokers, with expert-led insurance and a joined-up approach to employee benefits.

Insurance broking

Expertise for professional liability and regulatory risk

For financial services firms, the most significant insurable risk is liability for actual or alleged professional negligence.

Claims can arise from professional advice, execution errors, administrative failures, regulatory breaches or client reporting issues. Liability claims are infrequent, but when they occur they are complex, disruptive and costly — with defence costs often forming a significant part of the exposure.

We advise financial services firms across a range of insurable risks, including:

Employee benefits

Supporting your people

Financial services firms demand precision and tailored solutions for their clients. Yet their own employee benefits are all too often standardised, SME-focused offerings.

Even established firms with substantial teams often receive generic advice that fails to reflect their business model and compensation structures. The result is a mismatch between what’s offered and what’s required—leaving investment professionals under-supported, particularly around healthcare, life assurance linked to variable pay and retirement planning solutions that do not offer sophisticated investment options.

Featured Capabilities

Financial Institutions Insurance

We help to protect and strengthen financial services firms with specialist insurance solutions.

Employee Benefits

Our specialist employee benefits team work with financial services firms to help our clients recruit and retain talent in a competitive market.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our M&A experts work with corporate finance firms to transfer difficult risks, protect value and help buyers and sellers of businesses reach a clean, confident outcome.

Our impact

Restoring insurer confidence

A UK-based investment and wealth manager with over £18bn of assets under management approached Bartlett with its insurance programme under severe strain ahead of renewal.

£400,000
in premium savings

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