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.
Rokstone launches North American inland marine equipment programme
QBE supports programme with $10m underwriting facility
Hive enters PVT market
MGA appoints Atrium’s Stuart Harmer to lead new class as company continues specialty expansion
Price Forbes names Davies head of property
Former Lockton and JLT executive joins Ardonagh-owned specialty broker’s Bermuda operation
AUB to transfer Tysers UK retail teams to Prestige
Four Tysers branches to be impacted by retail transformation, as AUB chief executive outlines growth opportunities and cost savings
Insurance sector consolidation ‘accelerating’ in 2026: BP Marsh
The insurance-focused investor reports ‘robust pipeline’ of new opportunities
Why MGA Optio is chasing admiration, not scale
Group chief executive Deepak Soni is expanding Optio across Europe while resisting the industry’s obsession with size
Consilium adds international casualty offering with González hire
London broker continues build-out of casualty division with senior appointment from BMS
Guy Carpenter refused injunctive relief in Willis Re poaching lawsuit
UK Hight Court denies reinsurance broker's request for injunctions, but finds defendants involved in ‘unlawful conduct’
Pinion appoints Selvig US CUO
Kyle Selvig will oversee Pinion’s MGA network build-out following the firm’s launch earlier this week
BMS opens A&H unit in London
Broker hires Miller executive James Early to lead build-out of new business
Specialty insurer Pinion launches backed by Barings Capital
Pinion will offer insurance capacity for managing general agents in the US, UK and Europe
Aon promotes Fraccalvieri to global facultative CEO
Promotion puts the EMEA facultative chief in charge of global strategy, digital capability development and talent initiatives across Aon’s facultative reinsurance operations
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