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  • Risk and reward

    26 Nov 2021

    After 43 years in insurance and insurance law, Clayton Utz’s Fred Hawke talks about the industry he loves with professorial wisdom and a firebrand’s conviction

  • Art versus science

    17 Sep 2021

    According to John Donnelly, head of global placement for Asia-Pacific at Marsh, data might be the future of the insurance industry, but passion remains its driving force

  • A decade of pride

    23 Jul 2021

    NIBA chief executive Dallas Booth is retiring in late 2021 after 10 years with the peak body, but not before paying homage to the resourceful people who make up Australia’s intermediated insurance industry

  • Steering the Ship

    28 May 2021

    A corporate affairs expert and former ministerial media advisor, Andrew Hallbrought extensive governance experience when he took the top post at the Insurance Council of Australia last year

  • The art of building trust

    17 Apr 2021

    What do you get if you think like an insurer, deliver like a builder and put yourself in the shoes of the insured? The best possible outcome for a property claimant, say Construct Services’ Darren Trott and Aeron Rowe

  • Delivering value at scale

    19 Jan 2021

    Dale Smith of JAVLN sat down with IB to discuss how technology is reshaping the insurance space and how it can be improved in the future

  • Striving for inclusion

    18 Jan 2021

    Marsh Care Solutions leader Lyle Steffensen tells IB how growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era inspired her ongoing fight for equality

  • Growth in a time of crisis

    24 Jul 2020

    After a year of considerable growth, even in the midst of a pandemic, Ansvar CEO Warren Hutcheon lets IB in on the secrets of the insurer's success

  • Poised for transformation

    29 May 2020

    Crawford & Company CEO Rohit Verma tells IB how the 79-year-old organisation has put innovation at the centre of its evolution