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- October 15 2024
Price Forbes Singapore hires Honan’s Cassaundra Tan as director of employee benefits
Tan will lead the development and expansion of the employee benefits division in Singapore and across global markets, reporting to Asia Pacific chief executive Philip Johnson.
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- October 15 2024
Specialist Risk Group makes Asia foray with Singapore acquisition
The Temasek and Warburg Pincus-backed UK intermediary has agreed to acquire broker HL Suntek.
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- October 15 2024
Gallagher Re strengthens life and health reinsurance team with two senior hires
The reinsurer has appointed Sanjeeb Kumar as chairman of L&H reinsurance for India, and Addise Li as head of L&H reinsurance in China and Hong Kong.
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- October 15 2024
Envest unveils leadership rejig following completion of PSC deal
The restructure will see PSC's ANZ chief executive David Hosking leave the combined group at the end of this month.
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- October 14 2024
WTW hands Ivy Lee an expanded role of Asia food and beverage industry leader
Singapore-based Lee will focus on developing bespoke risk financing solutions for complex F&B organisations across Asia while also retaining her current role as head of property for the region.
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- October 10 2024
Marsh Pacific promotes Johannes-Daniel Veldsman as head of corporate and commercial
Veldsman takes over the role from Andrew Fluitsma. who is understood to have left the broker earlier this year.
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- October 10 2024
Brown & Brown completes acquisition of Singaporean broker Acorn
First announced in January, the deal by the US group's European arm Bridge Specialty is the brokerage group's second in the region after it entered Hong Kong last year through the acquisition of Capstone Brokers.
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- October 9 2024
Australia’s Community Broker Network takes ex-Marsh MD John Mutton
Mutton, who has been on gardening leave from Marsh since March, joins the authorised broker network as manager- strategic partners.
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- October 4 2024
Aviso promotes Moule to group chief broking officer, Bailey to broking CEO
Formerly CEO of Adviso Broking, Jeff Moule has transitioned to the newly created position within the group. David Bailey, a founding principal and current board director, has taken over the role as CEO.
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- October 4 2024
Mahindra Insurance Brokers opens Dubai office to tap MENA reinsurance growth
The expansion allows the reinsurance broker to tap into the Middle East and North Africa market, expand client base and explore new opportunities in the region.
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- October 4 2024
Brokers take measured approach to crack Japan’s US$62bn premium pot
With expectation for more intermediation, Western brokers are taking different approaches to entering the world's fourth largest insurance market.
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- October 2 2024
PSC shares delist from ASX as Ardonagh’s US$1.5bn takeover becomes effective
The completion of the takeover by the UK broking group now wraps up PSC Insurance's nine years of trading and quotation on the Australian Securities Exchange.
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- September 26 2024
WTW launches new China client division with Jie Yan named as head
New York-based Yan has been promoted to head the newly launched division after having assumed various senior roles at the global broker over the past 11 years.
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- September 26 2024
Australian brokers’ reported breaches in 2023 up 36% with US$6.5m impact on clients: IBCCC
In the 2023 Annual Data Report, the independent body tasked to monitor practitioners' compliance with the Insurance Brokers Code of Practice in Australia also highlights its concerns on brokers' failure to disclose their commissions to over 8,000 clients.
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- September 25 2024
Price Forbes ropes in Honan’s Thomas Russell to spearhead Singapore ANZ division
Russell has taken up the newly created role as director, head of Australia and New Zealand wholesale for Asia in a newly created position reporting to Phil Johnson, CEO for APAC.
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- September 24 2024
BMS New Zealand expands North Island team with Aon hire
Tim Emms will join the firm as an executive broker for its Auckland team and will be working with Nathan Richmond who assumed regional director role on May 1.
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- September 23 2024
India’s Equirus Group acquires strategic stake in Raghnall Insurance Broking
Following the deal, the companies expect to place GWP of US$47.9m this year and US$119.7m by FY 2028.
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- September 23 2024
Aon promotes Jon Pipe to Asia head of commercial risk
Pipe, who has been CEO and principal officer of Aon India Insurance Brokers, will continue to work alongside Rishi Mehra and the India leadership team to ensure consistency and continuity.
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- September 23 2024
Starr’s Rachel Miao joins Aon as Asia director, marine, cargo & logistics
For her new role, Miao, who was most recently head of marine for China at Starr Insurance, will relocate to Hong Kong from Shanghai.
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- September 19 2024
Australian, UK regulators greenlight Ardonagh’s takeover bid for PSC
The US$1.5bn scheme of arrangement to buy all the shares of the Australian broking group is now pending PSC's shareholders' and the court's approvals.
