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- August 22 2024
Epsilon Underwriting secures capacity to renew property ISR policies written by Argenta Australia
The move follows Argenta Group's announcement that it will close its Sydney office in July after a review of its underwriting activities.
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- August 22 2024
Crawford Malaysia names Kuppusamy as personal accident, fraud investigation team head
Murugan Kuppusamy brings 15 years of experience across personal accident, bodily injury, investigations, fraud detection, theft and motor claims to the team.
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- August 22 2024
Axa XL appoints Daniel Su as marine cargo underwriter in Hong Kong
Su has over 20 years of (re)insurance underwriting and broking experience focusing on the north Asia marine markets.
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- August 22 2024
Swiss Re expands public sector leader Lubomir Varbanov’s role to include development institutions
Varbanov's new title will be managing director, head of public sector solutions for APAC and multilateral development banks.
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- August 21 2024
Lockton taps Howden’s Richard Turner as Asia head for market management group
In his new role, Singapore-based Turner will establish Lockton Asia's carrier management function by building and launching the market management group for the region.
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- August 21 2024
HDI Global targets bigger market share in Asia, further regional ANZ expansion in H2 2024
The industrial lines specialist reported strong growth across its Australia and Singapore branches driven by a growth in new business and inflation-related price adjustments in the first half of the year.
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- August 20 2024
Australia’s FTA Insurance expands public and products liability team with two hires
Both Melbourne-based, Daniel Malic joins the financial lines-focused Lloyd's coverholder as national general liability manager, as Janelle Ferraro joins as general liability underwriter.
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- August 20 2024
Exclusive: ARB Indonesia elevates Wayan Sumendra to president director
In his new role, Jakarta-based Sumendra will be responsible for developing Indonesia reinsurance broking strategy and managing all business operations for ARB Indonesia.
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- August 19 2024
Zurich Singapore appoints Chubb’s Nixon Ooi as head of accident and health
Ooi will report directly to Alexandra Cowley, chief underwriting officer for Zurich Singapore.
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- August 16 2024
McGill and Partners expands Asia Pacific facultative team with two appointments
The broker has hired Sydney-based Brad Racker from Vero and named Rebecca Zacharow in London as associates in the regional fac team.
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- August 15 2024
ARPC hires Cameron Hick as head of technical underwriting
Hick has over 25 years of experience in the reinsurance industry across Australia, Switzerland and Germany.
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- August 15 2024
‘Impact insurers’ run into capacity, distribution hurdles in Asia
Public partnerships, people-centric design and tech solutions are needed for parametrics to be a part of the region’s relief capital mix and to close the protection gap.
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- August 13 2024
Newline continues Sydney expansion with Andrew Yeung hire
Yeung, who has been promoted to Australia head of D&O, will relocate to Sydney from Melbourne and work closely with Nick Beswick, head of professional indemnity.
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- August 13 2024
HDI Global raises bet on APAC with specialty, renewable push
The carrier has dialled up its political and credit risks capabilities in Singapore and is eyeing energy transition in ANZ, say APAC head Stefan Feldmann, and Alex Tarantino, MD for Singapore.
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- August 13 2024
New Caledonia unrest claims hit global (re)insurers
Allianz reported about US$284m exposure to the event, with its reinsurance arm also seing losses from the event, while Hannover Re and Scor saw EUR90m and EUR42m in claims, respectively.
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- August 12 2024
Guy Carpenter names Justin Ward as managing director-head of capital advisory, APAC
Singapore-based Ward takes over the role from Blake Dimitrijevic who will join Hannover Re Australia as managing director.
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- August 12 2024
QBE elevates Ed Rainsford to chief risk officer, Australia Pacific
Sydney-based Rainsford, who has been with the carrier for almost a decade, joins from the QBE group risk and compliance team where he has been the group chief compliance officer since July 2022.
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- August 8 2024
Zurich APAC H1 premiums up 9%, COR climbs marginally to 93.7%
Top line increase driven by strong retail growth, however, rising commission costs from a recovery in travel business in the region hurts bottom line.
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- August 8 2024
Lockton New Zealand takes Marsh’s Colin McCulloch as client director
Auckland-based McCulloch has been with Marsh for more than 28 years as principal providing insurance broking and risk advisory services to large and complex public sector and corporate organisations.
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- August 8 2024
Cyber wordings, limits set to tighten as CrowdStrike points to ambiguity in cover
The industry needs to address accumulation risks, data gaps and further threats from large-scale events that are becoming more frequent.
