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Lloyd's Market Directory (Brokers, Coverholders, Managing Agents, Syndicates) vs Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports
Which reinsurance data provider data fits your job: Lloyd's Market Directory, or Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Lloyd's Market Directory (Brokers, Coverholders, Managing Agents, Syndicates)
Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | Lloyd's Market Directory | Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports |
|---|---|---|
Syndicate Number | documented | not in this set |
Pseudonym | documented | not in this set |
Status | documented | not in this set |
Syndicate Name | documented | not in this set |
Managing Agent Name | documented | not in this set |
Lloyd's Europe CSN | documented | not in this set |
Comments | documented | not in this set |
report_period | not in this set | documented |
gross_written_premium | not in this set | documented |
combined_ratio | not in this set | documented |
profit_before_tax | not in this set | documented |
investment_return | not in this set | documented |
Coverage, side by side
| Lloyd's Market Directory | Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | Global - Lloyd's market participants worldwide, filterable by domicile country and by territories authorised to accept business from | Global - the Lloyd's market, organised from London |
| Temporal | Current directory with the active-syndicate roster organised by Year of Account (2026 YOA, dated 5 August 2026) | Headline results for 2025, 2024 and 2023 visible at capture plus a financial results archive; syndicate reports and accounts for year-ends from 31 December 2014 onwards |
| Granularity | Individual firm / syndicate level | Market-level aggregates plus individual syndicate reports and accounts |
What each contains
They tie on 3 attributes. Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Lloyd's Market Directory | Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Lloyd's | Lloyd's |
| Subject lens | Who underwrites and brokers at Lloyd's: a filter-driven directory of brokers, coverholders, managing agents, members' agents and open-market correspondents, plus the active-syndicate roster | How the market performed: aggregate GWP, combined ratio, profit before tax and investment return, with Solvency & Financial Condition Reports and syndicate reports and accounts beneath |
| Documented fields | 7 fields, definitions verified during research | 5 fields, definitions verified during research |
| Geographic coverage | Global - Lloyd's market participants worldwide, filterable by domicile country and by territories authorised to accept business from | Global - the Lloyd's market, organised from London |
| Temporal coverage | Current directory with the active-syndicate roster organised by Year of Account (2026 YOA, dated 5 August 2026) | Headline results for 2025, 2024 and 2023 visible at capture plus a financial results archive; syndicate reports and accounts for year-ends from 31 December 2014 onwards |
| Granularity | Individual firm / syndicate level | Market-level aggregates plus individual syndicate reports and accounts |
| Scale | 104 active market-facing syndicates in the 2026 YOA roster, with additional ACSN/ISN records and a managing agent sheet; directory result counts vary by query | Four headline KPIs plus a report period per release; 100-plus syndicate reports and accounts annually from 2014 |
| Secondary industries | None | None |
| Best for | Counterparty mapping: who can write which class where, and which managing agent stands behind which syndicate | Profitability and capital tracking: combined-ratio trends, premium growth and syndicate-level results |
Where they're equivalent
More than their different shapes suggest. Same publisher: both records are compiled by Lloyd's itself, which makes this a house view twice over rather than a reconciliation of rival compilers. Same subject universe: the Lloyd's market and nothing else - no competitor markets drift into either record. Same geographic frame: a global participant base organised around London. Same grain where they meet: the syndicate is the atomic unit in both, whether as a numbered row or as an annual report. Same editorial treatment: both field dictionaries were definition-verified during research, both score 7 of 10 against the catalog's 7.81 average, and neither is tagged beyond reinsurance. On paper this pair disagrees about almost nothing - it disagrees about what a row means.
The verdict
Take Lloyd's Market Directory if the question names people and firms. Who can write cyber in a given territory, which managing agents stand behind which syndicate numbers, where coverholders sit relative to their principals, how a market-entry target list should be segmented by company type - all directory-native.
Take Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports if the question names money. Combined-ratio trajectory, premium growth, profit before tax, investment returns, capital strength at market or single-syndicate level - all financial-record-native.
Investors and quants working reinsurance tend to start with the financial record and use the directory to attribute results back to named operators; data scientists usually want the directory's identifiers as the join skeleton before any ratios arrive.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Lloyd's Market Directory · See Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports
Or take both in one feed
Yes - as roster and ledger, which is exactly how the market keeps them. A defensible workflow: pull the directory's 2026 YOA roster for the population of active syndicates and their managing agents, then attach the financial record's syndicate reports and accounts to each member of that population so every identity row carries results.
Three seams decide whether the merge holds. First, identifier multiplicity: the directory lists additional ACSNs and ISNs beside primary syndicate numbers - QBE alone surfaces CSN 566 and CSN 1036 as extra settlement numbers - so join on the primary syndicate number and treat extras as attributes. Second, entity nesting: syndicate reports and accounts are published per managing agent, and one agent can run several syndicates, so aggregate at the level you actually joined. Third, vintages: the roster is a point-in-time snapshot of the 2026 Year of Account while the accounts close on 31 December year-ends, so date-stamp both sides before building a panel. Browse the rest of the shelf at the reinsurance data hub or the best reinsurance datasets shortlist.
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Fair questions
Is the Lloyd's Market Directory better than Lloyd's Market Financial Performance & Syndicate Reports?
Better at different jobs. The directory wins on counterparties: five company types, ten classes and roughly seventy sub-classes of business, and the 104-syndicate 2026 YOA roster with pseudonyms, managing agents and CSNs. The financial record wins on outcomes: GBP 57.9bn of 2025 GWP, an 87.6 percent combined ratio and syndicate accounts back to 2014.
Does either dataset list every active Lloyd's syndicate?
The directory does: 104 active market-facing syndicates for the 2026 Year of Account, each with syndicate number, three-letter pseudonym, status, trading name and managing agent, plus additional ACSN and ISN records such as QBE Reinsurance CSN 566. The financial record rosters nobody - it publishes reports and accounts for 100-plus syndicates annually instead.
How far back do Lloyd's syndicate financials go?
Syndicate reports and accounts begin with the year ending 31 December 2014 and continue annually for more than a hundred syndicates. Market-level results run through 2025, 2024 and 2023 in the visible lineup - full-year, half-year and a Solvency & Financial Condition Report apiece - with a financial results archive behind those.
What fields identify a syndicate in each dataset?
Seven on the directory side: syndicate number, pseudonym, status, syndicate name, managing agent name, Lloyd's Europe CSN and comments. Five on the financial side: gross written premium, combined ratio, profit before tax, investment return and report period - measures keyed to their reporting period rather than identity fields. That asymmetry is why the pair complements rather than substitutes.
Can I get both Lloyd's datasets from Datadory?
Yes - sample both and pick by fit, or take both in one feed. Each arrives normalized to its documented field dictionary (seven fields on the directory side, five on the financial side) with sample rows attached for inspection before anything ships, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.