Brokers & Distribution
Brokers provide a vital cog in the global specialty re/insurance marketplace, with their role continuingly evolving beyond a mechanism simply to place business. The advisory services provided by brokers now form a critical part of their value offering. The broking landscape is also shifting with major merger and acquisition activity creating opportunities for growing firms to expand in core markets and attract staff who have been displaced in the fallout from major deals.
Augment continues MGA drive with Bonnett hire
Reinsurance broker hires Acrisure London Wholesale partner to develop MGA client base
US insurance M&A slows slightly but megadeals rise
Sector sees 191 public transactions worth $29.6bn in six months to May 2026, PwC analysis finds
Renewables to continue softening through 2026
Rates for the best risks could fall by as much as 30% in 2026, according to WTW
Aon launches AI tool to map reinsurance conditions
Contract AI analyses Aon’s entire US and Canada contract database from the past three years to assess global market coverage trends, exclusions and limitations
Price Forbes builds MEA fac capability
Brokers makes senior hires from Guy Carpenter as it responds to ‘surging demand’ in the region
Oak and Descartes partner on Lloyd’s parametric capacity
Capacity deal will allow Descartes to write climate and technology risks through Oak’s syndicate 2843
MNK to expand into specialty agricultural markets
Lloyd’s broker appoints Robert Cooper as managing director for aquaculture, livestock and bloodstock
Dando named chief broking officer for Aon’s GBC
Dando was most recently chief executive for UK and MENA at Aon’s Strategy and Technology Group and Inpoint
BMS launches Lloyd’s consortia unit
The delegated authority and consortia team will be led by Richard Wynn
Willis Re names Ogilvie global head of non-marine specialties
Both Ogilvie and Dart join Willis Re from Guy Carpenter
Banyan Risk launches healthcare liability line in Bermuda
New line will focus on complex US healthcare professional liability risks, including hospitals and allied health providers
Willis Re appoints Guy Carp’s Fletcher as Bermuda chief
Former Guy Carpenter Bermuda chief executive joins reinsurance broking joint venture
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