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- July 19 2024
Noto earthquake, China floods among costliest H1 2024 economic loss events: Aon
The Noto earthquake remained the costliest event of the year to date in terms of total economic losses with more than U$17bn in direct damage, according to the broker's new cat recap report for the first six months of the year.
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- July 10 2024
Aon promotes Marguerita Silitonga to Indonesia president director of reinsurance solutions
Jakarta-based Silitonga will be responsible for driving growth and managing all operations in the country. She reports to Musa Adlan, executive director and head of Aon's Reinsurance Solutions in South-East Asia.
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- July 9 2024
Easing hard market cycle shifts carriers’ focus to APAC M&A, tech megatrends
More (re)insurers are riding on new tech trends to profit from over US$200bn premium potential, as there is also a growing interest in M&A opportunities in the region, according to Aon’s strategy and technology group.
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- July 5 2024
Aon hires Joy Warnock as M&A team project manager
Melbourne-based Warnock, who will be in charge of risk and insurance due diligence, joined from Marsh, where she was most recently a senior project manager focusing on M&A, reporting and analysis, and risk management.
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- July 4 2024
Australia and New Zealand mid-year renewals see return to stable market: Aon
Reinsurance buyers were seeing ample capacity and flatter pricing, with many experiencing low-single digits reduction, according to the broker's latest reinsurance market dynamics report.
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- July 3 2024
Aon names Peter Cheesman as APAC head of analytics for risk capital
Cheesman's new expanded role will make him responsible for analytics for the region's commercial risk across both the insurance and reinsurance sectors in Asia Pacific.
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- July 2 2024
APAC pricing stabilises at 1.7 renewals as global capacity hits record US$695bn
With more capital coming to the table, reinsurance rating reductions were in order, though loss-affected territories bucked the wider trend.
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- June 21 2024
Aon promotes Tracy-Lee Kus as head of its global broking centre
Kus, who was most recently head of commercial risk for Asia Pacific and head of North Asia at the broker, will relocate to London for the new role.
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- May 23 2024
Aon elevates Wen Chen to APAC reinsurance agriculture leader
Singapore-based Chen, who was most recently Aon's head of agriculture for Greater China, will explore new regional reinsurance and retrocession opportunities in the sector.
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- May 22 2024
Aon promotes Sharad Vishvanath as enterprise client leader in India
In his new role, Vishvanath will focus on advising large clients on complex issues relating to risk and human capital.
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- May 20 2024
Aon hires enterprise client leaders for Japan and Greater China
Okuyama and Li will focus on building relationships and expanding client portfolios for the global broker in the region.
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- May 16 2024
Cyber attacks top business risk for financial institutions: Aon
Failure to attract and retain top talent, which is now at eighth position, is expected to rise to third place as a future risk, according to a survey by the broker.
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- May 6 2024
World Bank debuts US$150m Jamaica hurricane cat bond in Hong Kong
The second World Bank bond to list in Hong Kong will offer cover to the Caribbean island state against tropical cyclone events for the next four hurricane seasons up to 2027 and will have a parametric trigger.
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- April 16 2024
WTW appoints Andrew Lam from Aon as property placement broker for Asia
Singapore-based Lam has handled north Asia property & casualty placements extensively during his over decade-long experience.
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- April 15 2024
Aon appoints Shailendra Sapra as CEO of India reinsurance solutions
Sapra, who has been with the broker since 2010, will be based in Mumbai and report to APAC reinsurance CEO George Attard.
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- April 8 2024
Taiwan earthquake set to be ‘notable event’ for local carriers: Aon
Relatively high take-up rate of residential earthquake insurance will impact the country's insurance industry as economic losses from the event is set to reach 'hundreds of millions dollars', the broker said.
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- April 3 2024
Aon completes acquisition of Global Insurance Brokers in India
GIB is now wholly owned by the global broker and will formally rebrand and intergrate with the group following the finalisation of the deal later this year.
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- April 3 2024
APAC markets see stable renewals on ample capacity, reinsurer appetite: brokers
The supply-demand dynamics have shifted in favour of reinsurance buyers in the April renewals, leading to better pricing and easing of market conditions across Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines and China.
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- April 2 2024
Floods, drought drive APAC economic loss to US$65bn in 2023: Aon
The protection gap for the region stood at 91%, with only US$6bn of economic losses covered by insurance, which is below the 21st-century average of US$15bn.
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- April 1 2024
April 1 renewals see ‘dramatic shift’ in favour of cedents: Aon
Japan property cat rates were flat to slightly reducing, while South Korea, China and India also saw increased competition for catastrophe business.
