The Underwriting Agencies Council’s 19th annual Sydney Underwriting Expo broke records for exhibitors and visitors. The Friday 9 March event at the Sydney Hilton had 98 exhibitors and would have topped the tonne had two exhibitors not had to pull out at the last minute. There were just under 400 brokers registered to receive CPD [...]
The Underwriting Agencies Council and its equivalent organisation in the United Kingdom, the Managing General Agents Association, are forging closer ties through a high-level meeting in Sydney next week. UAC and MGAA have been affiliate members of each others’ organisations since 2016. MGAA Chair Charles Manchester will have an extensive meeting with the UAC board [...]
UAC’s Sydney Underwriting Expo sponsorships are being snapped up quickly. Business Service member and UAC’s accountancy firm WLM is sponsoring the lunch. This year lunch is being catered within the Expo Hall, enabling brokers to enjoy food and beverages as they stroll around talking to exhibitors. WLM director Dan McGrath and UAC General Manager William Legge [...]
The Underwriting Agencies Council has launched a sponsorship proposal for its 2018 Sydney Underwriting Expo. The proposal is an industry first and responds to requests from insurers, agencies and service providers seeking greater involvement in UAC’s premier event. The Sydney Underwriting Expo is on Friday 9 March 2018 at the Hilton Hotel, 488 George St, [...]
The Underwriting Agencies Council has a new board of directors. At UAC’s annual general meeting (AGM) today (Thursday 14 December 2017), three current directors who have completed two-year terms were re-elected. They are Lyndon Turner, CEO of NM Insurance Pty Ltd; Kurt Nilsen, Managing Director of Lion Underwriting; and Peter Fryer, Underwriting Governance Manager [...]
Australian and New Zealand underwriting agency CEOs have polarised views on brokers’ future roles. Asked how they saw brokers’ role changing over the next five years, 45% of respondents to the Underwriting Agencies Council’s 2017 annual CEO Survey saw no change and agreed “we’ll rely on brokers to keep playing an essential role in our [...]
Five Underwriting Agencies Council (UAC) member agencies’ representatives are vying for four vacancies on the UAC board. Three are current directors who have completed two-year terms and are offering themselves for re-election. They are chair Lyndon Turner, CEO of NM Insurance Pty Ltd; deputy chair Kurt Nilsen, Managing Director of Lion Underwriting; and company secretary [...]
North Melbourne broker Cleveland Chu is $5,000 richer after his passport was drawn from the entry box at the Underwriting Agencies Council-Lloyd’s Village at the NIBA Convention in Sydney yesterday. Cleveland completed his passport entry form by visiting all 39 UAC member exhibitors in the village. Cleveland, an authorised representative for FP Insurance Brokers, was [...]
One lucky broker attending the Underwriting Agencies Council-Lloyd’s Village at the 2017 NIBA Convention will leave the event $5,000 richer. UAC and Lloyd’s are giving $5,000 of gold bullion to an insurance broker who obtains stamps or signatures from at least 25 of the 39 participating UAC members in the UAC-Lloyd’s Village at the NIBA [...]
Two lucky brokers are $1,000 richer after attending the Underwriting Agencies Council’s Adelaide Underwriting Expo this week. Vanessa Grandison, an assistant broker from MGA Insurance Brokers, and personal lines manager Daniel Robinson, from Murdoch Insurance Brokers, each won a $1,000 travel voucher, courtesy of UAC and Corporate Traveller. To be eligible for a prize, brokers [...]