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Aon is one of the world’s largest brokers of both insurance and reinsurance business.
Aon names Jim De Pre Senior Managing Director
5th September 2022
Aon Reinsurance Solutions, the reinsurance arm of global brokerage of Aon, has hired veteran Jim De Pre to lead the Strategy - Accident & Health team in the US as Senior Managing Director. De Pre has over 40 years of industry experience, with his most recent role being at Guy Carpenter. He ... Read the full article
Nick Pritchard joins Aon in Bermuda retro broking role
2nd September 2022
Nick Pritchard has joined Aon as managing director for property retrocession in Bermuda. The move was announced on LinkedIn, with Pritchard joining the firm after two years with Vantage Risk Companies as its SVP and head of property catastrophe. Prior to Vantage, Pritchard spent three-and-a-half years at Neon, as the head ... Read the full article
UK cyber market stable, trade credit facing challenges
2nd September 2022
The cyber market in the UK has remained “stable and modestly” favourable in this year’s second quarter, while the Trade Credit market has become more challenging in the same period, according to Aon’s latest Q2 Market Dynamics Outlook: The United Kingdom. According to the re/insurer, the cyber markets’ stable condition has ... Read the full article
UK insurance market sectors stabilising, says Aon
1st September 2022
Aon’s latest Q2 Market Dynamics Outlook: The United Kingdom has cast an eye over the country’s moderate markets. The firm said that the property market continued to stabilise in Q2 following previous underwriting adjustments, improved insurer results, and a focus on growth. However, while upwards price adjustments continued, it said that ... Read the full article
Aon hires Sarah Freitag from Gallagher Re
30th August 2022
Sarah Freitag has joined insurance and reinsurance broker Aon from Gallagher Re, taking on the role of Executive Managing Director, Head of E&S Specialty P&C. Based in New York, Freitag joins Aon after spending roughly 10 months with reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, initially as Executive Vice President, Specialty Property Segment Leader, ... Read the full article
Aon beefs up its ReSolutions structured finance team
25th August 2022
Aon has made three appointments to its ReSolutions structured finance team. The team, which sits within the Capital Advisory unit in the firm’s Reinsurance Solutions division, will be joined by Sherman Power, who becomes global head of innovation alongside his role as head of ReSolutions US; Barry Gale, who becomes global ... Read the full article
Aon & University of California collaborate on wildfire modelling
15th August 2022
Re/insurance broker Aon has announced a new collaboration between its Impact Forecasting team, the University of California, Merced and the University of California, Los Angeles to implement the latest climate change science and research into Aon’s US wildfire catastrophe model. The academic collaboration will support the development of climate-conditioned fire danger ... Read the full article
Aon appoints Sucheng Chang to top job in Hong Kong
10th August 2022
Aon has appointed Sucheng Chang to be the new head of its Hong Kong office. The firm made the announcement through a post on LinkedIn. It is understood that Chang will be moving to his new role after thirteen years with Liberty Mutual Insurance, based in Singapore, where he held a number ... Read the full article
Aon names James Platt Chief Digital Officer and Mindy Simon joins as COO
9th August 2022
Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has named James Platt as Chief Digital Officer, Mindy Simon is joining the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO), taking over from Platt. Based in London, Platt will be overseeing Digital Client Solutions and will be reporting to Aon President Eric Andersen. In his new role he ... Read the full article
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions names WTW’s Becky Allison as COO of STG
5th August 2022
Becky Allison has been announced as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of re/insurance broker Aon's Strategy and Technology Group (STG), Reinsurance Solutions, based in London. In her new role, Allison takes on responsibility for the day-to-day business operations of STG. This includes implementing the division's strategy to bring Aon's expertise ... Read the full article
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions delivers organic revenue growth of 9% in Q2
29th July 2022
Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has announced total organic revenue growth of 8% to $3 billion in the second-quarter of 2022, on the back of growth in all business segments including a notable 9% rise in organic revenue within its Reinsurance Solutions arm. Across the firm, Aon has revealed that net ... Read the full article
Impacts from Russia’s war against Ukraine keenly felt, says Lloyd’s and Aon report
28th July 2022
A new report from Lloyd’s and Aon says that the sector most affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be the energy sector. The report, Ukraine: A Conflict that Changed the World, lays out five plausible scenarios to the industries and geographies most affected by the conflict. Each scenario explores ... Read the full article
La Niña amplifies weather extremes in first half of 2022: Aon
25th July 2022
The persistence of La Niña conditions across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean has been one of the most prominent reasons for elevated weather extremes since 2020, reports re/insurance broker Aon. These conditions have global implications on weather patterns and other atmospheric or oceanic phenomena that can often bring ... Read the full article
Inflation to magnify H1 insured losses, says Aon
22nd July 2022
Analysts at Aon have warned that inflation, in combination with other factors, are likely to magnify insured losses in the first half of 2022 beyond initial estimates. The broker's data shows that insured losses from natural disaster events totalled $39 billion in H1, which is roughly 18% above the 21st ... Read the full article
Global insured losses from catastrophes above average at $39bn in H1 2022: Aon
20th July 2022
Data from insurance and reinsurance broker Aon finds that globally, insured losses from natural disaster events totalled $39 billion in the first half of 2022, which is roughly 18% above the 21st Century average. In contrast to the above average volume of catastrophe losses experienced in the six-month period, global economic ... Read the full article
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