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Bluefin expands commercial division
Bluefin Insurance Services has appointed Simon Hoare as executive director.
Bluefin relationship with ICAEW extended for three years
Bluefin Professions has secured an exclusive appointment to provide professional indemnity and office insurance to members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales for a further three years.
Market moves: CEO change at Willis takes the headlines
Recruitment news this week was dominated by the appointment of a new group chief executive at Willis, after long-serving CEO Joe Plumeri announced that he is standing down early in 2013 after 12 years, and the appointment of a new broking CEO at Hastings…
Bluefin builds Birmingham corporate team
Bluefin has named Aon's Adam Morris and Lisa Tollley as account directors in Birmingham with immediate effect.
Barbon hires Bluefin and Axa heads for CKW roles
Barbon Insurance’s Cadogan Keelan Westall has appointed Amanda Hindman, pictured standing, and Sue Filsell.
Market moves: FSJ, Liberty and RSA among main hirers in busy week for recruitment
This week FSJ continued its recent recruitment push by adding four new brokers to its growing team. Meanwhile, Liberty announced hires in its European underwriting arm and syndicates team, and RSA welcomed two new staff to its global speciality lines…
Oval enters consultation with Vela to 'simplify' business
Oval Insurance Brokers has entered into consultation with senior management figures at its underwriting subsidiary Vela in a move aimed at "simplifying" the business.
Yutree appoints former Bluefin underwriting director to MD role
Commercial broker Yutree has appointed former Bluefin underwriting director Kevin Hancock as its managing director.
Senior underwriting jobs at risk at Oval
Oval Insurance Brokers has entered into consultation with some senior management at its underwriting subsidiary Vela in a move aimed at "simplifying" the business.
Insurer-owned brokers: An endangered species?
The insurer-owned broker has become a permanent industry fixture in recent years, but a number of sales may have put the model in doubt. Are its days numbered?
Bluefin appoints Reich's Capel
Axa-owned insurance broker Bluefin has appointed John Capel as regional managing director.
Market moves: All change at Mondial Assistance as firm prepares for Allianz rebrand
Preparing for life under the Allianz Global Assistance banner, Mondial Assistance was the busiest firm in the recruitment sector this week.
Bluefin ponders acquisitions after publishing positive 2011 results
Bluefin has "plenty of cash washing around" should it decide to make an acquisition, according to chief executive Stuart Reid.
Groupama sale to Ageas unlikely to improve either group's rating prospects
The acquisition of Groupama Insurances by Ageas UK should "end uncertainty" among brokers over Groupama's financial strength and creditworthiness in the UK, but will have little impact on the 'negative' rating outlooks of either parent company, analysts…
Bluefin delivers £11.5m dividend to Axa
Bluefin has paid its parent company an £11.5m dividend for the 2011 financial year on Ebitda of £17.8m (2010: £15.2m) and pre-tax profit of £11.6m (2010: £10m).
Bluefin launches schemes and affinities division
Bluefin Insurance Group has unveiled Bluefin Solutions, a division focusing on the development and distribution of new and existing schemes and affinities.
Peter Elliot leaves Bluefin
Bluefin head of marketing Peter Elliott, pictured, is to leave the company with immediate effect.
Keelan Westall boosts underwriting team with new starters
Wholesale property insurance broker Keelan Westall has set out to strengthen its technical expertise with a series of key appointments within its underwriting agency.
Aviva to exit US general insurance market after ending Hiscox deal
Aviva is withdrawing from the US general insurance market following a decision to end its two-year reinsurance quota share agreement with Hiscox's US property catastrophe book. The arrangement dates back to the 2010 financial year.
Brokers insist on level playing field over EC Insurance Mediation Directive
Insurers have been dragged into the mandatory commission disclosure debate by disgruntled brokers demanding a "level playing field", following the latest publication of the revised Insurance Mediation Directive.
Mandatory commission – an necessary evil?
Rumors of mandatory commission disclosure have plagued the market since the start of the year but as the European Commission confirms brokers fears Francesca Nyman assesses the impact on European brokers.
Aviva's relationship with Willis Networks tipped to be under review
Aviva is reviewing its partnership with Willis Networks, Post understands.
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Bluefin boss joins campaign against mandatory commission disclosure
Bluefin boss Stuart Reid has thrown his weight behind a campaign to stop mandatory broker commission disclosure being forced on the industry by Eurocrats, claiming that just 50 of its clients have asked for commission disclosure in the past year.