Market moves: The moves merry-go-round

The insurance recruitment gene pool has long required dilution but it still seems to be the same names popping up going to new jobs at new companies. Which wouldn’t be so bad if so many of them didn’t end up going back to the company they originally left. The heavy musk of recruitment consultants hangs in the air.There was also a rash of board appointments in the wider market with non execs in particular getting in on the action. Underwriters made appointments at all levels with MGAs making some ignificant moves but it was the big guys such as Aviva and Axa that made the biggest splashes. However, it was the broking market that saw most of the activity out there, so, with no further ado…

The move that got most tongues wagging over the last month was easily Martin Oliver’s decision to leave Barbon and head back to the world of personal lines as UK CEO of the Allen & Allen Group but there is more about that in the box below.

The other big departure last month, and moving into masters of the universe territory here, was the announcement that Andrew McKenna (left), was to leave Aon after serving 42 years as a director. His departure follows his abstention from voting on Aon’s move