Insurers have been benefiting from a growing economy where things could seemingly only go up, now many of them are being hit hard by their investment portfolios no matter how diverse, writes Andrew Tjaardstra, editor of Professional Broking magazine, the management magazine for insurance brokers.

For those who are not on holiday at the moment, doesn't it seem like the rest of the world is, writes Andrew Tjaardstra, editor of Professional Broking in the latest PB Week. Poor weather, out of office e-mails and smug people returning from sunny climbs complaining about the wind and the rain signal that it is well and truly the holiday season, and yet how are we still sat at our desks?

The week begins on a Thursday evening according to this blog, so here is a brief summary of my last week, writes Andrew Tjaardstra, editor, Professional Broking.

What do we have to do to get some sunshine these days? We spend all autumn, winter and spring waiting for a couple of weeks of unadulterated sunshine and so far in August we have been given humid, rainy, dark, damp days perhaps one day an insurer will introduce a personal policy against poor seasonal weather writes Andrew Tjaardstra, editor of Professional Broking.