Reinsurance meeting delegates head for the Baden mountains on bikes

A sporty or perhaps sportive slice of  Brit’s Baden-Baden team, together with a smattering of market friends, set off on Sunday morning for a roughly 30-mile mountain bike course through the surrounding hills, adding 2023 to a tradition said to have been going for more than 20 years.

“This is a gorgeous place,” Simon Bird of Brit said of the German spa that has hosted the reinsurance gathering since it grew out of the German marine conference in 1979. “People come and just touch the surface of it,” he says of the gathering’s circa 3,000 participants.

Bird, now at his 30th Baden-Baden congress, took his initial cue from Ulysse Re’s Hugo Barker who suggested the idea some two or three years after the duo had their first Baden-Baden meetings under their belts.