Ace boosts financial lines team
06 May 2013
Ace Insurance has boosted its financial lines team with several senior appointments…
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RIMS comes to Australasia
29 April 2013
The US-based Risk and Insurance Management Society has established an Australasian chapter in Melbourne, with members in Sydney and New Zealand…
Actuaries to review education needs as focus widens
29 April 2013
The Actuaries Institute aims to review the profession’s educational needs and improve its brand this year…
Tributes paid to respected broker
29 April 2013
Phil Doring, of Queensland-based Phil Doring Insurance Brokers, has died aged 65 after a battle with bowel cancer…
Insight looks to improve education
29 April 2013
Broker group Insight Australia plans to increase its educational offering to members, according to new CEO Moira Kemp…
ANZIIF is back In The Room
29 April 2013
A business conference that was postponed last year is now set to go ahead this winter…
Actuaries to consider strategic role
29 April 2013
The new regulatory landscape and actuaries’ involvement in strategy will be among the themes of this year’s Actuaries Institute summit…
Floods are man-made catastrophes: Manning
22 April 2013
Many natural disasters are now better described as man-made, according to LMI Group MD Allan Manning…
Insight names award winners
22 April 2013
Insight Australia Group presented three awards at its annual conference in Cairns at the weekend…
QBE starts aviation scholarship
22 April 2013
QBE Australia has launched the Aerial Application Scholarship to help aviation professionals further their careers…
Hatton to take up role with Stream Group
22 April 2013
Bryce Hatton has been appointed GM Australia for claims service provider Stream Group…
GIO appoints workers’ comp underwriting manager
22 April 2013
GIO Workers’ Compensation has appointed Tim Allen as Underwriting Manager ACT/National Accounts…
Categories added to industry awards
15 April 2013
Prizes honouring support for female workers and young professionals have been added to this year’s Australian Insurance Industry Awards…
NZ brokers focus on insurance changes post-Christchurch
15 April 2013
The New Zealand insurance industry will meet in Christchurch in August to discuss how the Canterbury earthquakes have changed broking in the country…
Affiliated FM reveals scholarship winner
15 April 2013
InterRisk broker Emma O’Rourke has won this year’s Affiliated FM Scholarship…
Tresidder broker wins Catlin scholarship
15 April 2013
Luke Chrzanowski, of Geelong-based Tresidder Insurance Brokers, has won this year’s Catlin London Educational Scholarship, which is awarded each year to a Steadfast broker aged under 30…
LMI recruits Victoria-Tasmania manager
15 April 2013
Claims management group LMI has appointed Steve Mann as State Manager for Victoria and Tasmania…
Zurich appoints customer care chief
15 April 2013
Zurich has appointed Anita Piccolo as Customer Care Manager, Queensland…
Steadfast/ANZIIF award winners named
15 April 2013
Winners of the Steadfast/Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance awards were revealed at the Steadfast Convention in Sydney last week…
Institute wants papers for injury seminar
15 April 2013
The Actuaries Institute is seeking papers for its Injury Schemes Seminar, which will focus on the complexity of supporting injured claimants at a time of low investment returns…