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Aon Benfield’s COO Explains How He Implements a Complex Strategy

Oct 2 2014 // Aon Benfield’s COO Michael Moran shares Chicago roots with Aon and a lot more as he oversees the implementation of the strategy for its $30 billion a year reinsurance division. He discussed just what that entails in...

Aon Benfield Launches Private Charter Aviation Product

Oct 1 2014 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced the launch of a new insurance product, developed by Aon Benfield’s ReSolutions team that “is set to drive growth in...

Andy Weitz Joins Aon as SVP of Global Marketing & Communications

Sep 30 2014 // Aon plc announced that Andy Weitz, 37, will become senior vice president of global marketing and communications on October 1st.Weitz was most recently president and CEO of the U.S. region for Hill + Knowlton Strategies, a...

Aon’s Evans Joins Wells Fargo Insurance for National, International Sales

Sep 25 2014 // Wells Fargo Insurance has named Alejandra (Alex) Evans as senior vice president for its Risk Management and International business. Evans is responsible for collaborating with national and regional sales leadership and...

Aon’s Evans Joins Wells Fargo

Sep 24 2014 // Wells Fargo & Co., the largest bank on the U.S. West Coast, hired Alejandra Evans as senior vice president for risk management and international business at its insurance operation. Evans joins from Aon Plc, where she...

Wells Fargo Insurance Hires Aon Exec Samuel for Metro D.C., Va. Region

Sep 22 2014 // Kyle Samuel Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company, has named Kyle Samuel managing director for its Metro Washington, D.C., and Virginia offices. Samuel will lead business development, client service and...

Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting Adds PERILS’ Exposure Data to Europe Model

Sep 11 2014 // The PERILS Windstorm Exposure data for Europe is now available in the Impact Forecasting ELEMENTS format. In a telephone interview Adam Podlaha, head of Aon Benfield lmpact Forecasting, said that Aon Benfield has licensed...

Reinsurance Alternative Capital Now 20% of Cat Market: Aon Benfield ILS Report

Sep 11 2014 // Alternative capital has captured approximately a 20 percent market share of property catastrophe reinsurance volume.That news came our of Aon Benfield Securities, which issued its annual report on the insurance-linked...

Aon Benfield Study: Global Reinsurer Capital at New Peak – $570 Billion

Sep 8 2014 // The latest edition of the Aon Benfield Aggregate (ABA) report, which analyzes the financial results of the world’s leading reinsurers in the first half of 2014, estimates that global reinsurer capital reached a...

U.S. Economic Losses Due to Napa Quake, August Floods Top $4 Billion: Aon

Sep 8 2014 // As far as natural perils go, August was mostly about earthquakes, along with a few tropical storms and typhoons around the world to add to the trouble, according to Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting in its latest...

Aon Sells eSolutions Unit to Symphony Technology Group

Sep 3 2014 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, announced it has sold Aon eSolutions, Inc., its risk management information systems business unit, to an affiliate of Palo Alto-based Symphony Technology...

‘Worst Market in Memory’ to Keep Pressure on Reinsurance Rates

Sep 3 2014 // The worst reinsurance market in memory looks set to carry into 2015, industry executives said.An absence of costly disasters and increasing competition from new entrants dragged on prices this year, and reinsurers may...

Aon Benfield Secures Reinsurance Capacity for AEGIS Cyber Offering

Aug 29 2014 // Aon Benfield announced that it has secured “the reinsurance capacity for a unique cyber product developed by the Lloyd’s syndicate of mutual energy insurer AEGIS London.“The product offers a comprehensive...

Aon Welcomes UK Government’s Launch of ‘Trailblazer’ for Insurance Apprentices

Aug 21 2014 // Aon plc has issued the following statements regarding the UK government’s announcement of the Trailblazer insurance apprentice program.Dominic Christian, CEO of Aon UK Limited, said: “We are proud to have been...

Aon Benfield Exec Is GOP Candidate for Kansas Insurance Post

Aug 7 2014 // An accountant and industry executive has won the Republican nomination for Kansas insurance commissioner.Ken Selzer, of Leawood, emerged from a field of five candidates in the Aug. 5 primary. His nearest rival was Eudora...

Aon Acquires Peru-based Graña y Asociados to Bolster Latin American Presence

Aug 7 2014 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, announced the acquisition of Graña y Asociados, a Lima, Peru-based leader in risk and insurance solutions for individuals and businesses. Financial terms...

Typhoons a Major Cause of Losses in July: Aon Benfield – Impact Forecasting

Aug 7 2014 // The latest edition of Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap report concludes that Super Typhoon Rammasun, which made separate landfalls in the Philippines and China, caused widespread...

Business Moves

Aug 4 2014 // Aon, National Flood ServicesAon Affinity, the consumer, association and program business of Aon Risk Solutions, has completed its acquisition of StoneRiver National Flood Services Inc. and related entities from StoneRiver...

Aon Names Bruno as Executive VP – Enterprise Innovation and CIO

Jul 31 2014 // Aon plc announced the appointment of John G. Bruno as Executive Vice President of Enterprise Innovation and Chief Information Officer for Aon, effective September first. He will also become a member of the Executive...

Aon Benfield Analytics Releases Report on Lloyd’s

Jul 29 2014 // Aon Benfield Analytics’ Market Analysis team has launched its latest Lloyd’s Update report, covering the market’s business position in 2014, strategy over the next three years and financial results in...