Mav Rodriguez

Mav Rodriguez

Insurance Business Australia

Mav Rodriguez

freelance news writer

10 years experience47,137 Total views on Insurance Business Australia in 2025

Mav's specialty topics

regulation & compliance insurtech & AI market shifts & pricing executive moves

Mav Rodriguez is the pen name of a freelance news writer at Key Media, where she reports on insurance, mortgage, finance, and business developments.

Her coverage spans executive moves, market shifts, regulatory developments, industry reports, and company announcements across global financial services. She brings a strong background in research, editorial judgment, and SEO, producing clear and useful stories for specialist audiences.

Before focusing on trade journalism, Mav wrote across news and culture, guided by a longstanding interest in helping readers understand the issues that affect them. That focus on informing readers remains central to her work.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“Good insurance journalism is about showing how individual developments fit into the bigger shifts happening across the market. That requires judgment—not just getting the facts right, but also knowing when a detail is significant and when it is simply noise. The goal is to help readers understand what is changing and, more importantly, what deserves their attention”

Awards and recognition

  • Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts in Nonfiction
  • Raul Locsin Award for Student Journalism

Also published by

When in Manila · Rappler · Philippine Daily Inquirer · Wealth Professional Canada · Insurance Business · The Educator

Featured content from Mav

Insurers face new visibility test in AI search APRA data shows where claims uncertainty is highest - and why size changes the picture Steadfast extends exclusivity for $7.7 billion Amwins-led takeover

Previous experience

  • Key Media — global news writer
  • Ateneo de Manila University — writing assistant
  • Rappler — news and investigative intern

Education

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Creative Writing (Nonfiction), Ateneo de Manila University

Read the latest stories by Mav

Why the same insurance risk can now produce very different prices

Why the same insurance risk can now produce very different prices

The data behind insurance prices is expanding - but so is the scrutiny of whether it can be explained

APRA questions smaller super funds as group risk market consolidates

APRA questions smaller super funds as group risk market consolidates

Three insurers already control 79% of group risk inflows

ASIC moves to preserve claims-handling relief for brokers

ASIC moves to preserve claims-handling relief for brokers

Three ASIC instruments affecting claims staff, FSGs and family violence settlements are proposed for extension to 2032-33

Gallagher Bassett names SA GM as claims model expands

Gallagher Bassett names SA GM as claims model expands

Long-serving exec takes charge of key claims operation

Private health device costs leave $1.1 billion savings gap

Private health device costs leave $1.1 billion savings gap

Insurers point to further scope to ease premium pressure

Steadfast extends exclusivity for $7.7 billion Amwins-led takeover

Steadfast extends exclusivity for $7.7 billion Amwins-led takeover

The split ownership structure - Dragoneer taking retail broking, Amwins taking underwriting agencies - is the most consequential structural question for the $25 billion GWP network

Legacy asbestos risks put contractor liability cover under scrutiny

Legacy asbestos risks put contractor liability cover under scrutiny

Routine building work can trigger uninsured claims

Financial and health worries hit 48% as insurance budgets tighten

Financial and health worries hit 48% as insurance budgets tighten

Nearly one in three respondents say they cannot save

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