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- February 27 2026
Allied World promotes Camela Santos to property vice president
Sydney-based Santos has been with Allied World in Australia and Singapore for over five years.
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- February 25 2026
Allied World promotes Ben Schindler to assistant vice president
He is based in Sydney and has been with Allied World for more than five years.
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- February 23 2026
QBE appoints Chubb’s Carles Tondo as head of property for Asia
Tondo, who will report to South Asia CEO Stephen Geisler, will assume the portfolio from Brendan Dunlea.
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- February 11 2026
Market Lane appoints Grace Best as property underwriter for Barn Underwriting Agency
Brisbane-based Best brings over 14 years of experience across property underwriting and claims.
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- February 5 2026
Chubb Australia promotes Liam O’Sullivan to senior property underwriter
He has been with Chubb in Dublin and Sydney since November 2020.
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- February 4 2026
Pacific insurance rates drop 12% in Q4, led by property: Marsh
Globally, commercial insurance rates continued to soften in Q4 2025, with the Pacific region seeing the steepest declines.
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- January 29 2026
1.1 renewals show acceleration of downward pricing momentum: Moody’s
Reinsurers will post strong profitability for the year and companies are expected return more capital to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks as expected returns from underwriting move lower over the coming months, the rating agency says.
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- January 28 2026
XS Global taps Nicholas O’Neil as regional property underwriting manager in Asia
Hong Kong-based O'Neil was most recently executive director for specialty and risk managed accounts at Aon Thailand.
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- January 28 2026
Charles Taylor promotes Bradley Verreyne to national executive adjuster for Australia
Perth-based Verreyne has been at Charles Taylor since September 2021 as an executive adjuster.
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- January 26 2026
Marsh expands data centre facility to Australia, New Zealand, raises limit to US$2.7bn
Nimbus now provides coverage, inclusive of delay in start‑up and business interruption, for major data centre construction projects in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, and Europe.
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- January 20 2026
Allied World names Mark Chisholm as lead underwriter for Australia property division
Melbourne-based Chisholm previously spent over 11 years at CGU Insurance.
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- January 20 2026
Unprecedented AI‑led data centre surge tests APAC’s capacity as hyperscale builds accelerate
Wave of developments are stretching traditional underwriting limits, intensifying aggregation concerns, and pushing insurers, brokers and investors toward more specialised engineering insight, alternative capital and bespoke risk‑transfer structures.
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- January 19 2026
Ben Williams returns to Aon Australia as national practice leader for housing
Canberra-based Williams returns to broking having been on the client side for the last three years.
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- January 15 2026
Siddharth Verma joins Axa XL’s India underwriting team as assistant property underwriter
Mumbai-based Verma joins from Marsh India, where he had worked in the facultative reinsurance team for property and construction underwriting since February 2022.
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- January 13 2026
FM increases capacity for Intellium clients to US$5bn to meet growing data centre demand
Commercial property insurer says it will offer 'unprecedented support for its clients' with the enhanced limits.
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- January 6 2026
Swiss Re CorSo Australia taps Allianz’s Sean McCaffrey as senior property underwriter
Sydney-based McCaffrey previously worked at Allianz Australia for almost 15 years, most recently as a senior property underwriter.
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- January 5 2026
Fac reinsurance MGA Pinnacle Underwriting promotes Benjamin Mogford to ANZ head of property
Melbourne-based Mogfold joined Pinnacle in 2022 as deputy head of property and energy for ANZ following his over four-year stint at Zurich.
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- January 5 2026
HDI names Kenneth Law as North Asia property underwriting manager
He takes over from Eric Fung, who will retire in June.
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- January 2 2026
Strong capacity, growth appetite drive favourable 1.1 renewals outcomes: Howden
APAC's risk-adjusted pricing for loss-free XoL programs generally falls by 10-20%.
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- December 22 2025
Wang Fuk Court fire insurance payouts exceed US$33m: HKIA
General insurers have processed 1,038 clams with total payout of around US$26m in the three weeks since the fire, the regulator said.
