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Insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon has hired Colin Harper as Managing Director, Alternative Risk Transfer and Innovation, a position that will see him having a parametric insurance and risk transfer focus.

Independent and private equity funded broking group, Miller, has revealed that James Hands will take over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the insurance and reinsurance broker, succeeding Greg Collins.

Insurance and reinsurance broker Miller, the independent and private equity funded broking group, has now announced that recent insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused hire John Duda has now joined the company in Bermuda.

Adding the capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) expertise acquired with TigerRisk Partners into the Howden Group business represents a “massive opportunity”, according to Founder and Chief Executive of Howden Group, David Howden.

International insurance group Howden Group Holdings has announced the acquisition of reinsurance and risk capital advisory TigerRisk Partners, a deal that positions Howden as a global re/insurance intermediary with $30 billion of premiums placed through its business activities.

Acrisure, the expansive insurance and reinsurance broking group, has seen its valuation spike by 31% in little over a year to $23 billion, as the firm announces the closure of $725 million in additional funding to fuel further growth.

An active catastrophe bond market in the first-quarter of 2022 helped to drive “fantastic growth in the ILS business” for Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division, according to President of Aon Plc, Eric Andersen.

AUB Group, an Australian listed financial services group comprised of insurance brokers and underwriting agencies, is to acquire near 200 year old insurance and reinsurance broking group Tysers, gaining wholesale Lloyd’s, reinsurance and some insurance-linked securities (ILS) expertise.

Insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has benefited from the strong levels of activity in the catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in the first-quarter of 2022, with revenues soaring.

TigerRisk, the broking group and reinsurance and risk capital advisor, has hired Bill Tuttle, a property catastrophe specialist, as a new Partner and senior broker at the firm.