Marsh McLennan

Most of the 22 opportunities encountered in the first half were in insurance, the investor says.

The independent broker expands into healthcare and specialty with the hires.

The executive leaves the MMC business, where he was most recently head of UK finpro placement, after three decades.

Protest losses, which were covered under its property programme, came to around $100mn, leading some carriers to exclude the cover.

Scott Leney, who has been Marsh Australia CEO since 2015, will also become MMC Australia’s corporate country manager.

She replaces Dan Hearsum, who has been named as the managing director of Brit’s new follow-only syndicate Ki.

The broker returns to Willis after a 17-year absence.

The new follow-only syndicate has worked with Google Cloud to develop a digital offering.

Vanessa Macdonald-Smith, who resigned as CEO of the legacy JLT Fac business in April 2019, has resurfaced in the market as head of direct and facultative at Oneglobal Broking.

A spell of damaging losses has led to sustained positive rate movement in the sector.

Mark Ettershank was at Marsh for four years, and before that was a corporate lawyer for nine years.

Mike Johnson takes over from Tim Smith, who is set to retire after nearly three decades insurance.