All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 25 2017 // Total catastrophe bond issuance for calendar year 2016 reached US$5.8 billion – a decrease from US$6.9 billion in 2015 – principally due to ongoing competitive re/insurance market conditions, according to an Aon...
Jan 24 2017 // Aon Global Risk Consulting, the risk consulting business of Aon plc, has launched its Cyber Captive Program, which guides companies through a series of steps to help identify, assess and quantify their cyber exposures –...
Jan 20 2017 // Aon plc announced the appointment of James Platt as chief operating officer of Aon Risk Solutions and Michael Moran as chief executive officer of Aon Inpoint. Both roles are effective immediately.Platt will be based in...
Jan 19 2017 // Insurance broker Aon Plc is in advanced talks to sell its employee benefits outsourcing unit to buyout firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC for nearly $4.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The...
Jan 18 2017 // Aon Global Risk Consulting, in collaboration with TNO, a research agency, has launched the Aon Loss Estimating Risk Tool (ALERT), a new modelling tool for oil, gas and petrochemical clients.The new tool is able to model...
Jan 18 2017 // Aon announced it has completed its acquisition of Admix, the São Paulo, Brazil-based health and benefits brokerage and solutions firm. Financial terms were not disclosed.“Admix’s brokerage and operational...
Jan 17 2017 // Overall, just 26 percent ($54 billion) of overall economic losses caused by natural disasters worldwide during 2016 were covered by insurance as a higher percentage of damage occurred in areas with a lower insurance...
Jan 12 2017 // Capacity continues to outpace the growth of reinsurance demand despite insurers’ continued efforts to optimize their view of reinsurance as capital and expand into growing lines of business and innovation, according...
Jan 12 2017 // ASAE, The Center for Association Leadership, has enhanced its Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) Insurance Program offered through Aon Affinity Nonprofits in partnership with Arch Insurance Co. The ASAE...
Jan 10 2017 // Aon plc has launched “Brexit Navigator,” a tailor-made solution designed to help organizations quantify the impact of Brexit risk exposures, and redesign their risk management and risk financing...
Dec 8 2016 // Insurance losses from last month’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand are likely to range between NZ$1.0 to 5.0 billion (US$705 million and US$3.5 billion), according to a report published by Impact Forecasting,...
Dec 5 2016 // Xceedance, the Boston-based provider of property/casualty insurance technology, analytics and consulting services, announced the launch of an operations center in Krakow, Poland.The center will provide services and support...
Dec 1 2016 // Aon announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Admix, a leading health and benefits brokerage and solutions firm in Brazil.Financial terms of the agreement, which was announced on Nov. 25, were not disclosed and...
Nov 21 2016 // USI Insurance Services has completed its transaction to purchase Johnson & Bryan, a retail property/casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage firm based in Atlanta. Terms of the transaction were not...
Nov 21 2016 // Rene van Winden has joined Lockton from Aon as a senior vice president and national energy property leader. He is based in Houston.Van Winden previously spent more than a decade with insurance broker Aon, most recently as...
Nov 10 2016 // Hurricane Matthew, which swept through parts of the Caribbean and United States, had total economic losses of up to US$15 billion, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.In...
Nov 8 2016 // Aon plc has launched a risk management solution designed to help organizations prepare for a new data protection law due to come into force on May 25, 2018.The law, known as the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or...
Nov 3 2016 // Lloyd’s of London recently announced the winners of its 2016 Innovation Awards. Beazley, Cromar, Hiscox and Tokio Marine Kiln each picked up awards for innovative products or new ways of working.Aon won most...
Nov 2 2016 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has completed its acquisition of Stroz Friedberg Inc., a global risk management firm based in New York City. Financial terms were not disclosed. This move...
Nov 2 2016 // Capsicum Re, the London-based specialist reinsurance broker, announce it has hired Marcio Ribeiro and Júlia Nunes to Capsicum Re Latin America Brazil.Ribeiro is head of the facultative division and is based in Sao Paulo;...