Market moves: Brokers bouncing back

Over the summer it was the insurers who were wiping the floor with brokers when it came to the number of market moves going on. It appears though that brokers own the winter as the past few weeks has seen far more recruitment activity among them than among providers

Ardonagh Group led the way with a very high profile move for ex-TIP boss Rob Worrell (see box) which also resulted in Janice Deakin moving to a new role. Similarly Lycetts unveiled a new CEO, GRP recruited a chief information officer and Erskine Murray added a head of business development to the team. Axa topped the news among insurers with the departure of Paul Evans and, separately, new branch managers, while ERS, Zurich and Chubb all made appointments. Meanwhile IFED revealed Andrew Fyfe as