Manal Ali
Manal Ali

Insurance Business America

Manal Ali

Senior Sponsored Content Writer

14,844 Total views across Insurance Business in 2025

Manal's specialty topics

Investing and portfolio management content Mergers, acquisitions, and industry growth Claims and industry talent pipeline

Manal Ali is a Senior Sponsored Content Writer for Key Media with a focus on investing and portfolio management content for InvestmentNews, Wealth Professional and the Benefits and Pensions Monitor titles.

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business from the University of Waterloo. After a brief stint in the finance industry, Manal transitioned to financial journalism at Canadian DIY-investing publications Advice for Investors and Investor's Digest.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I look at how plan sponsors and asset managers approach risk and long-term positioning. My goal is to make that decision-making clear for the professionals who work in and around this industry.”

Also published by

InvestmentNews · Wealth Professional · Benefits and Pensions Monitor · Human Resources Director

Featured content from Manal

Insurance's future depends on who comes next When growth is built, not assembled The small claims squeeze

Previous experience

  • Advice for Investors — Financial Journalist
  • Investor's Digest — Financial Journalist

Education

  • Bachelor's degree, Economics and Business, University of Waterloo

Read the latest stories by Manal

Insurance’s future depends on who comes next
Data points to a significant insurance talent shortfall ahead. ALKEME’s Barton explains why firms must move beyond awareness and commit to long-term development strategies
Insurance’s future depends on who comes next
When growth is built, not assembled
Why ALKEME treats growth as an operating imperative, using integration, innovation, and selectivity to sustain long-term scale
When growth is built, not assembled
The small claims squeeze
With more claims and less time, the industry must decide if accuracy, scalability and 24-hour turnaround can coexist in a high-frequency future
The small claims squeeze
Meeting demand in a constrained market: How Victor Insurance handles wood-frame builders risk
How thoughtful underwriting, realistic capacity, and builder-specific insight can keep custom home projects insurable
Meeting demand in a constrained market: How Victor Insurance handles wood-frame builders risk
Where construction risk begins and ends is changing fast
Victor weighs in: Emerging liabilities, and changing claims patterns are reshaping the exposures brokers and underwriters must anticipate
Where construction risk begins and ends is changing fast
Beyond the portal: Building a safety net for new agents
As AI and aggregators reshape insurance, Victor doubles down on mentorship, carrier access, and hands-on broker support
Beyond the portal: Building a safety net for new agents
Rewriting the risk map
Victor Insurance's Jeff Benson on why brokers are rethinking risk management as wildfires outpace conventional underwriting tools
Rewriting the risk map
Small restaurants, big risks: The coverage gaps that could shut them down
From kitchen fires to cyberattacks, independent restaurants face mounting risks - but many remain underinsured. Experts at Victor Insurance explain how brokers can help
Small restaurants, big risks: The coverage gaps that could shut them down
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