Introducing the latest upgrades to Trading View, our weekly market compass

What is Trading View?

Trading View is our weekly benchmarking tool for the General Insurance market, covering Motor and Home, crafted for decision-makers who are pressed for time but need precise, actionable insights. It's built on our Daily Price Benchmarking data, based on a weekly set of over 3,000 Motor and nearly 2,800 Home risks, rolled up into a single dataset each week so clients can track how the market, their competitors, and their own performance have moved.

It's one portal within our wider pricing suite: a family of tools each built with different use cases in mind, including Underwriter View for underwriting-focused benchmarking and Daily Price Benchmarking for granular, daily price tracking. Trading View is the portal purpose-built for the weekly trading decision, striking a deliberate balance between depth and speed.

Rather than leaving users to interpret raw data themselves, Trading View distils it into a dynamic report and a set of interactive Power BI dashboards, refreshed every Monday morning. It's designed to sit at the start of the trading week: clients look at their own performance figures, then turn to Trading View to understand why they moved (was it something they did, or something the market did to them), so they can walk into that week's trading conversations with the answers already in hand, rather than spending hours digging for them.

We've now upgraded Trading View, and the update is live today. This is about one thing above all: helping decision-makers get to that “why” even faster. Here's what's changed, why we changed it, and what it means in practice.

Why we've upgraded it

Trading View exists to give pricing and trading teams context: to help them explain their own performance, understand whether a shift was something they did or something the market did to them, and walk into their trading meeting as the person with the answers.

In refining the tool, we kept coming back to one principle: the people who rely on this data are time-poor. They don't want to trawl through data points to find what matters; they want the story told to them, quickly and clearly. That principle shaped every change in this release, from simplifying how data is selected and compared, to surfacing the “why” behind market movements automatically rather than leaving it to be pieced together across multiple pages.

What's new

• Compare multiple customer segments side by side, in one table
  
  Trading View lets users break performance down by customer segment, for example by age group or vehicle type. Previously, comparing across several segments meant selecting one, viewing it, then going back to select another. Now all the segments a client cares about can be selected at once and populate together in the same table, making it much faster to compare like-for-like across the areas of the market that matter most.

• Gainers and losers, brought together
  
  The market overview dashboard now shows, at a glance, who's gained and who's lost as premiums shift in a segment, alongside a client's own competitive share movement. This makes it much easier to tell whether a change was down to their own strategy or driven by someone else's move (a new entrant, a competitor's price cut, and so on), so they can explain, with confidence, whether their plans are on track or whether the market moved around them.

• Machine Learning Index added
  
  Trading View now includes the Machine Learning-based rating index, bringing it into line with what's already shown in our Daily Price Benchmarking product. This closes a gap that existed in the previous version of Trading View. The benefit is the same reason we use machine learning across our pricing analysis in the first place: it's a method that understands the pricing model of each individual product, cutting through market noise to give a clearer, more accurate read of where you sit on price.

• Rate movement tracking: week, month-to-date and year-to-date
  
  Clients can now track their own rate movements over the week, month-to-date and year-to-date, broken down by channel, in one place, giving them a bird's-eye view of where their rates stand against the market without having to hunt across different visuals.

• A smarter, automatic peer group
  
  Trading View lets clients benchmark themselves against a “peer group”: the small set of competitors they're compared against most closely. Previously, clients selected this peer group themselves. Now it's set automatically, based on the brands that genuinely sit closest to a client competitively (the ones actually pushing and pulling their performance week to week), and it updates as the market does, so if a competitor drops out of a client's competitive space, the comparison set reflects that. It's a small change with a real purpose: benchmarking against the businesses that genuinely affect a client's performance, rather than names that happen to be familiar but don't compete with them directly.

• A clearer view of competitive threat
  
  This is the area that's changed the most. Within the peer group comparison, clients can now see how often they win or lose against each competitor, and the average price difference when they do, giving a much sharper sense of which competitors are a genuine threat (a close-priced, well-known rival) versus which are lower-stakes (a niche or less-considered brand rarely lost to anyway, even at a large price gap). Alongside this, a segment-level breakdown shows net position change week-on-week, with the ability to drill down and see exactly which competitors risks were gained from or lost to.

• Positioning and market context, in one place
  
  Two of the dashboard views (“Peer Spotlight” and “Group Spotlight,” which show how a client's position has changed relative to a chosen competitor or group) now bring market-level context directly into the same view as positioning changes, making it possible to immediately see, for example, that competitive prices rose while a premium fell (an expected, positive outcome), without flicking between two separate dashboard pages to join the dots.

• A cleaner “Price Modifications” view
  
  One of Trading View's dashboards shows the best opportunities to adjust premiums while staying competitive. This view has been redesigned with a cleaner layout.
  
  

The bigger picture

None of these changes are about adding more data for its own sake. They're about making sure that pricing and trading teams spend less time searching and more time deciding, and that when asked “why did this happen,” they have a confident, evidence-based answer ready to go. That's the purpose behind everything we build: turning market complexity into confident action.

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