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- October 31 2024
AUB Group to focus on building out its UK retail capabilities in FY 2025
The Australian broking group has combined the Tysers retail arm with Movo and Momentum to form a new UK retail unit, which will be led by recently named chief executive Bob Pybus.
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- October 29 2024
Tysers names new Singapore CEO and APAC marine head in regional push
Babita Rai has been promoted to CEO of the AUB Group-owned broker in the Lion City and William Furness-Smith has been appointed head of marine for APAC.
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- August 23 2024
AUB launches third strata MGA Rubix Underwriting as division’s pre-tax profit surges 58%
The new entity will have Lloyd's as the capacity provider and will allow the broker to grow its strata portfolio which already includes brands SUU and Longitude.
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- August 21 2024
AUB logs 32.5% growth in FY 2024 after-tax profit on margin expansion, acquisitions
The Sydney-based broker's chair David Clarke will retire in October with current director Peter Harmer set to assume the role.
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- July 16 2024
AUB-owned Tysers Singapore ropes in Surabhi Mehrotra as associate director, reinsurance
Mehrotra joins from JB Boda, where she spent almost a decade as assistant general manager of treaty and facultative reinsurance broking.
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- July 16 2024
AUB targets New Zealand expansion through equity partnership with Northco
Northco’s management will retain a significant shareholding "to continue to adopt an entrepreneurial focus for the business".
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- June 10 2024
AUB picks up 40% stake in UK retail broking network Momentum
The deal gives the Australian intermediary access to an authorised representative network with over 100 partners placing more than US$114m in premium.
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- May 23 2024
AUB completes US$132m placement for Pacific Indemnity deal
The Australian broker issued 7.3m new shares in a private placement primarily to fund the Pacific Indemnity acquisition, with excess funds allocated for other M&A deals in the pipeline.
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- May 22 2024
AUB to acquire financial lines specialist MGA Pacific Indemnity
The Australian broking group will pay up to US$93.4m for 70% of the underwriting agency and it has launched a US$133m private placement to fund the deal.
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- May 7 2024
AUB lifts FY 2024 net profit guidance to top-end of earlier range
The Australian broker's second forecast upgrade this year is based on the assumption that the profit split for the first and second half would be in-line with the usual seasonality trend and renewal cycle.
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- February 20 2024
AUB upgrades earnings guidance as H1 FY 2024 pre-tax profits grow 18.3%
A doubling of underlying net profit after tax in its underwriting agencies and New Zealand businesses bolstered the Australian broker's results.
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- January 25 2024
AUB Group bolsters M&A war chest with US$560m debt deal
The refinancing and new loan give US$171m of available liquidity to the Australian broker providing financial flexibility ‘to capitalise on organic and inorganic growth’.
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- November 2 2023
AUB-owned Tysers to settle US Department of Justice probe for US$47m
The matter related to Integro Insurance Brokers and the conduct of business in Ecuador between 2013 and 2017.
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- September 8 2023
Tysers Singapore ropes in Babita Rai as reinsurance MD
In her new role, Rai will lead the AUB Group-owned Lloyd's wholesale broker's reinsurance operations in the Lion City.
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- August 22 2023
AUB Group’s net profit zooms 74% in FY 2023
The Sydney-headquartered broker’s group revenues crossed the billion-Australian-dollar mark as Tysers’ earnings exceed forecasts.
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- June 19 2023
AUB completes US$10m share purchase plan
The proceeds will be used to increase financial flexibility and balance sheet strength to allow AUB to capitalise on its 'attractive M&A pipeline'.
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- June 8 2023
Neil Dempsey joins 360 Underwriting Australia as head of property, mid market
Sydney-based Dempsey joins from a rival MGA and will work with Jonathan Moss, executive director, mid-market property.
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- May 18 2023
AUB in US$100m equity raise as Tysers UK retail JV with PSC called off
The fundraise is more than the US$66.5m it was due from PSC under the 50/50 JV agreement, as the broker targets more M&A.
