As Miller continues to grow strategically, we remain focused on areas where we have differentiated capabilities and strength in depth, providing you with market-leading risk placement support and services.
We recently caught up with Annabell Fell-Clark, who leads Miller’s new Fine Art & Specie team, to understand more about the team, their areas of expertise and how they can help you.
Please introduce yourself and your team?
I’m the Head of the Fine Art & Specie team at Miller and have been working for nearly 30 years in the Lloyd’s and London insurance market, with 20 of those spent dedicated to this specialty area. I learned my trade at Hiscox in the 1990s alongside some of the founders of Fine Art underwriting and have been lucky enough to work for some of the best companies in the sector.
The team also includes Giovanni Sard who has direct experience working in art galleries and auction houses, and our most recent addition, Lance Thorpe who brings over 15 years’ experience across the specie sector, including jewellers block, in both underwriting and broking. Lance’s dedicated knowledge of specie will help to deepen the team’s range of experiences and product expertise.
What are the team’s main areas of expertise and who and what do you cover?
We work with a wide range of clients, including art galleries, museums, private collectors, artists, and auction houses. Art insurers will cover almost anything that has a “collectable value”, and that extends to classic cars, fine wines, musical instruments, sports memorabilia – I’ve even been asked to insure a collection of match boxes before for someone!
We also work with armoured car companies, retail and wholesale jewellers, manufacturers of jewellery and mining companies who have specie risks. You could distinguish specie insurance as covering anything that’s “valuable”, as opposed to the “collectable” of art insurance.
How can you add value to our European partners?
We are a dedicated specialist team who have a deep understanding of our clients’ needs because of our backgrounds in either the art world or specie related industries. We can understand the demands that are placed on our broker partners. This, combined with our ability to provide bespoke insurance solutions and exceptional service, sets us apart in the industry.
We are keen to work with our broker partners across all parts of Europe, to either support their existing Fine Art & Specie portfolios, or provide options for their Private and Commercial (including Municipality) clients with needs in this space.
If you would like to get in touch with Giovanni Sard, please use the contact details below.
