The sun has final arrived, and with it comes a spate of positive results announcements from AXA, Allianz and Cigna. As witnessed for a while, travel is booming.

This last month hosted an excellent IPMI summit, with interesting materials on global mobility trends, regional growth, benefits for the under 40s and an outlook for increased M&A in IPMI. As befits Spring, some new products were announced, and Africa is on that menu again.

Wider afield, we read about the price rise effects in medical provision, driven by the profit motives of PE. AI is obviously a hot topic in health with a growing precautionary tone.

Possibly of greatest interest is Swiss Re’s forecast of a return to longer life expectancy after a period of flat lining.