Industry Segments: Brokers Page 18 / 55
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- February 9 2024
Pacific Prime makes Australia foray with senior hire
The broker has appointed Melbourne-based Honan Financial veteran Michael Atta as head of employee benefits.
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- February 8 2024
WTW appoints Starr’s Ryohei Nakazawa as Japan head
Based in Tokyo, Nakazawa will start on April 1 and will also head the broker's corporate risk and broking team.
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- February 7 2024
Pacific Prime acquires Malaysia’s MIT Insurance Brokers from Johor Corp
The deal between the global insurance brokerage and Malaysia's state development corporation will see MIT Insurance Brokers integrate into Pacific Prime Consultants Malaysia.
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- February 7 2024
WTW promotes Royston Tan to head of health & benefits for APAC
Tan is succeeding incumbent Cedric Luah who will be leaving the firm after a nearly nine-year tenure.
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- February 5 2024
Aon ‘doubling down’ on India with treaty team build out
George Attard, APAC head of reinsurance, and India CEO Jon Pipe outline the broker's ambitious plans for the region's fastest-growing insurance market in an exclusive chat with IAN.
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- February 5 2024
Steadfast-backed broker Collective merges with strata specialist Body Corporate Brokers
The combined business will employ more than 120 people in Australia with a network of more than 200 strata manager-authorised representatives, and provide insurance placement and claims services for 30,000 strata schemes.
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- January 31 2024
Philip Johnson named CEO designate for Price Forbes Asia
Johnson will take over from Stephen Britten, who will become executive chairman of the Ardonagh Group (re)insurance broker, in September this year.
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- January 29 2024
Howden boosts multinational client focus with Aon’s Mike Baker
Singapore-based Baker will focus on climate and political risks, energy transition, and cyber in his new role.
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- January 29 2024
Howden plans to make ‘a big and permanent splash’ in APAC: M&A chief
Armed with a billion-pound war chest, the broker is working on a ‘forever strategy’ to build a truly global alternative to the big three, says global head of M&A Peter Blanc.
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- January 26 2024
Pace of loss cost inflation is the ‘great unknown’: Marsh McLennan’s Doyle
The group’s insurance broking business in Asia Pacific saw revenues grow 7% to US$1.3bn in FY 2023.
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- January 26 2024
Howden Private Wealth names Benjamin Cheng as global CEO
Cheng was promoted to the global role from being the chief executive of Howden Private Wealth Asia.
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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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- January 22 2024
Lockton makes India foray, appoints Sandeep Dadia as country CEO
The US-based broker has been awarded a licence to start insurance broking operations in India.
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- January 19 2024
Gallagher Australia ropes in Antony Bull as senior adviser for transactional risks
Based in Sydney, Bull joined the company from dispute resolution firm Deutsch Miller.
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- January 19 2024
Marsh hires Chris Varcoe as managing principal for financial and professional lines
Melbourne-based Varcoe joins from Aon, where he was the placement director.
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- January 17 2024
Brown & Brown expands in Asia with acquisition of Singaporean broker Acorn
The deal by the US group's European arm, Bridge Specialty, is its second in the region after it entered Hong Kong last year through the acquisition of Capstone Brokers.
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- January 16 2024
Marsh promotes Tyson Vickery to Asia placement leader in Singapore
Kevin Hubbard has been named chairman of placement, Marsh Asia.
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- January 16 2024
Aon grows India treaty reinsurance team with three senior appointments
The new appointments include Kolli Rao, who has joined the broker as president and senior advisor, Ajay Rakhane as head of agriculture and Ankit Mehta as head of non-agriculture treaty.
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- January 15 2024
Thailand’s Roojai acquires Indonesian online broker Lifepal
Following the deal, the two companies will jointly expand their product offerings, and online and offline distribution.
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- January 10 2024
NIBA CEO Philip Kewin resigns, set to leave in April
The Australian broker industry body has commenced an executive search to find its next CEO.
