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PwC Australia appoints new insurance leader

21 February 2022

Yoshiro Makita has been appointed to the role of Insurance Leader for Australia within PwC Australia’s Financial Services business after the departure of Bernadette Howlett at the end of last year...

Chubb names acting distribution head

21 February 2022

Chubb Head of Global Broker Unit Australia & New Zealand John French has been appointed acting Head of Distribution, according to reports...

Gallagher Bassett partners with Special Olympics

21 February 2022

Gallagher Bassett has partnered with Special Olympics, a decades-long global movement aimed at ending discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities and fostering acceptance via sport and education...

Insurers chip away at large gender pay gap

14 February 2022

Financial services remains stubbornly among industries with the largest divide in earnings between men and women, although insurers have achieved a significant narrowing of the gender pay gap over recent years and almost half of all promotions in Australia went to women last year...

Arteva Funding appoints senior manager

14 February 2022

Nichole Hastie has been appointed to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Key Accounts at Arteva Funding, effective February 28...

Financial services luminary joins Zurich Australia boards

07 February 2022

Geoff Summerhayes, who just completed a five-year term as board member at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and was formerly Suncorp Life CEO and MLC’s head of Superannuation and Investment, has been appointed to Zurich Australia’s boards...

Law firm names new insurance partner

07 February 2022

Sydney-based Jacqueline Haski has joined Moray & Agnew as a Partner in its insurance practice, bringing her paralegal team Amy Reyes and Karen Jackson...

ANZIIF names broking sector, New Zealand award winners

31 January 2022

Bridges Insurance Compliance and Office Manager Alana Garnett has won the QBE-sponsored Broking Sector category Making a Difference recognition award, the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance has announced...

Sedgwick names COO Australia

31 January 2022

Global loss adjuster Sedgwick says Tracey Harris has joined the busines as COO in Australia...