01 July 2013
Failed New Zealand insurer Western Pacific’s liquidators have received $NZ1.9 million ($1.59 million) after settling a reinsurance contract relating to the Canterbury earthquakes…
01 July 2013
Brisbane insurance broker Trade Risk has acquired Moneypot Financial Services after nearly a year of talks…
01 July 2013
Allianz is backing a multi-peril crop insurance product launched in Australia by Latevo International…
01 July 2013
Insurance comparator iSelect has traded at a discount since listing on the Australian Securities Exchange last Monday…
24 June 2013
Three companies have merged in a bid to create Australia’s leading bloodstock and livestock insurance broker…
24 June 2013
Retiring Macquarie Premium Funding CEO Gary Seymour is returning to broking as CEO of mid-market specialist PSC Insurance Group…
24 June 2013
US-based software provider Ebix’s sale to Goldman Sachs has fallen through after the bank pulled out over allegations of misconduct…
24 June 2013
Berkley Re Australia has promoted COO Tony Piper to CEO, replacing co-founder Peter Nickerson…
24 June 2013
Austbrokers AEI has bought Chegwyn Insurance Brokers, a non-aligned broker serving the industrial centre of Wetherill Park in western Sydney…
24 June 2013
Companies must take time to build relationships if they are to move into Asia, IAG MD and CEO Mike Wilkins says…
24 June 2013
Suncorp is to offer compulsory third-party insurance in the ACT, giving motorists there a choice of providers for the first time since 1979…
24 June 2013
Insurance comparator iSelect says its share offer to institutions was oversubscribed…
24 June 2013
Brisbane-based Specialist Underwriting Agencies has relaunched iConstruct, its online underwriter for the SME construction industry…
24 June 2013
Centrepoint Alliance shares issued as part of the Professional Investment Holdings deal have been removed from escrow…
17 June 2013
Steadfast members have approved all resolutions needed for the company to restructure before listing on the Australian Securities Exchange…
17 June 2013
Last week’s acquisition of broker InterRISK demonstrates the strength of his group’s “owner-driver” model, Austbrokers MD and CEO Mark Searles says…
17 June 2013
Lloyd’s underwriters in Australia made an underwriting surplus of $574.67 million last calendar year, according to figures compiled by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority…
17 June 2013
New Zealand local government insurer Civic Assurance plans to re-enter the property market by launching a new pool for its council shareholders…
11 June 2013
An investment vehicle owned by independent Lloyd’s broker Besso and London-based financial services venture capitalist BP Marsh has acquired a 39.47% interest in local underwriting agency Sterling Insurance…
11 June 2013
A new premium funding company is promising “the highest standard of product and service delivery” when it enters the Australian market at some time in the future…