Market moves: Bucking the trend for UK employment
With September in full swing, announcements of moves around the market are arriving thick and fast. After the dearth of recruitment news in August, disciplines across the industry spectrum appear busy luring expertise from competitors, promoting from within, creating new senior strategic roles and even opening operations overseas. When set against the pessimistic projections for UK employment and renewed fears of a double dip recession, this summary of insurer, broker and loss adjuster moves is refreshingly positive.
Insurers appointments first and, on the specialist commercial side, Travelers has named two new assistant general managers, David Sawyer joins from QBE to take responsibility for the management of the
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