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• Direct Line appoints new group CFO

  10 October 2024

  Jane Poole joins from Aviva

• Direct Line sells portions of high-yield portfolio

  04 May 2016

  And makes realised and unrealised losses of £7.7m

• Hardie cautiously re-risks Direct Line's portfolio

  08 October 2015

  Direct Line's investment boss Jim Hardie has been steering the UK general insurer's investment portfolio into more dynamic areas. But he is at pains to stress his conservative approach. By Sarfraz Thind