Over the past few months, our Hamilton office has undergone a major transformation as we added more offices and welcomed the Frank Life team - Simon, Ed, Katie, Andy, and Olivia. Bringing our general insurance experts together with life and health specialists means we can now provide you with a complete insurance solution across all facets of risk management.
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Andrea Cadwallader - Winner of the NZ Brokers Jim Harris Scholarship 2024
We are absolutely thrilled to share that Andrea Cadwallader has been awarded the 2024 NZ Brokers Jim Harris Scholarship.
Valued at $16,000, this scholarship covers the cost of attending the Institute for Strategic Leadership’s Step-Up Programme in Queenstown.
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Emma Haugh - Best Female Insurance Leaders in NZ
Emma Haugh has been named as one of the Insurance Business Best Female Insurance Leaders in NZ |
Elite Women for 2023. We are so proud of Emma for picking up this well-deserved accolade. Read more
The Frank team swapped their computers for spades to volunteer for the Kaitiakitanga Charitable Trust.
Together we assisted with the planting of 2700 native trees to help restore the native forest around the waterways in Raglan. This is our second year planting trees so we got to see the growth of the trees we planted and the progress the initiative has made. Having native trees around the waterway strengthens the edges and provides a great environment for native fauna to return to the area.
Frank Risk Management hits reset button with relocation
After a tumultuous two years, it’s safe to say we’ve all needed some sort of start over – a move that Kiwi insurance brokerage Frank Risk Management has made by way of new premises in the company’s beloved city of Hamilton.
Speaking with Insurance Business, Frank co-founder and director Rene Swindley (pictured) shared: “The new office is a 100-year-old building known as the Newton King Building. Newton King was a stock and station agent in the early 1900s.
Brokerage co-founder on 'very enriching' industry development
“I think for many businesses, especially in the current environment, the insurance broker is seen as important to them as their lawyer and their accountant – I love that.”
Those were the words of Frank Risk Management co-founder and director Rene Swindley, who recently sat down with Insurance Business to talk about what it’s like being a broker these days. If his comments are anything to go by, it looks like it’s a good time to be part of the New Zealand broking sector.
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2020 Top Insurance Workplaces revealed
Insurance Business New Zealand is proud to announce the 2020 Top Insurance Workplaces, Frank Risk Management Ltd being one of the 15 organisations making the ranking.
Now in its second year, the Top Insurance Workplaces report celebrates all organisations within the insurance industry, big and small, that have excelled across a number of key metrics, including health and well being, communication, and access to technology.
Frank Risk Opens Wellington Branch
The Frank Risk Management Group is pleased to announce the opening of the Wellington Branch, which commenced trading from the beginning of January 2020.
From the Group’s inception in 2008, Frank Risk Management has vocally challenged and disrupted the New Zealand fire and general insurance industry. Frank Risk Management Ltd, (formerly known as Hutchison Rodway (Waikato) Ltd), was the first broking and risk management company to provide full income disclosure to all its clients. CEO and co-founder; Andrew Newman explains,
The brokerage that has tackled conflicts of interest head-on
One of the biggest draws of an insurance broker is that they do not charge a fee for their service - however, this has thrown up its own ramifications for the industry, and broker remuneration structures have received some heavy criticism in recent years.
Brokers have generally rallied against charging fees to the client to eliminate conflicts of interest, but, within this landscape, one brokerage has been doing exactly that for almost a decade.
Frank and Fearless Future - Rene Swindley
While anyone young has time on their side, Rene Swindley has not wasted any.
He’s created his own opportunities and made the most of those that have presented themselves.
At 33 years of age, Swindley is director of his own start up commercial insurance brokerage and underwriting agency.
With a Board and management team handling everyday operations, Swindley is free to network and develop further projects, dragging the New Zealand insurance industry into the digital age.
Bringing a horse to water
Global broking and risk management company Aon has been placing dedicated cyber insurance policies since about 2005. While very few policies were purchased that year, Fergus Brooks, Australian National Practice Cyber Leader, Cyber Risk, says demand grew significantly from 2010, as businesses started to understand the damage a cyber incident could have on an organisation.
Frank is excited announce that we’re finalists for two award categories at the New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards 2018
The Australian & New Zealand Institute of Insurance & Finance announced yesterday that Frank Risk Management are finalists in two award categories for the 7th New Zealand Industry Awards.
The first award is for Small-Medium Broker of the Year (which just quietly, we have taken out two years running) and the second for Young Insurance Professional of the Year (Rene Swindley). This is such a great achievement and a great privilege.
