Frank Risk Management invests in compliance and its employees. CEO Andrew Newman shares how they supported staff in obtaining the NZ Certificate in Financial Services Level 5.
Frank Risk Chief Has a Suggestion for Insurers
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.
A knack for creating opportunities
Anna Parker, Frank Risk Management Senior Broker is delighted to have won the ANZIIF 2022 Making a Difference Award — New Zealand.
‘It’s not just an acknowledgement of my work, but also of those who supported and lifted me up,’ she says.
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.
Anna Parker - Insurance Business Elite Women for 2022
We are very pleased to announce that Anna Parker has been named Insurance Business Elite Women for 2022. This award is in recognition of her technical expertise, outstanding commitment and dedication to clients and the wider insurance industry. Read more
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.
Insurance is confidence
Many businesses love their existing insurance broker, have great relationships with them, and are reluctant to consider a different option. I always feel so happy when I hear someone say "I have complete faith and trust in my insurance broker".
It's not those people that I want to help, it's the ones that feel a bit lost in the insurance world, aren't sure they are getting the value they thought they were, and don't have confidence in the service levels and expertise of their current insurance advisor. After all, buying insurance is simply a process of buying confidence.
Cyber Insurance - don't be so quick to dismiss
Time and time again, I hear the phrase, "we have the best IT team in NZ, and our systems are impenetrable. How would cyber insurance help us?"
We are in the early stages of cyber insurance, and the claims are just getting started. This is just the beginning. My time as a lawyer showed me how much the profession loves making a difference to others but generally likes to bury its head in the sand about potential risks they face and what help they might need.
There is another way
This article gave me mixed emotions.
I was sad for the small business owners and how dismayed they must have felt to discover the vast amount they were paying to a broker in undisclosed fees, and then I felt motivated to explain that not all commercial brokers out there operate this way.
There Are Likely To Be Some Difficult Conversations After The 15th Of March
New Auckland office head 'blown away' by client care
Late last year, insurance brokerage Frank Risk Management opened up a new branch in Auckland, and new operation head Anna Parker (pictured) says she was ‘blown away’ by the level of customer care shown by Frank Risk’s team, which ultimately cemented her decision to join the firm.
Parker is a former insurance lawyer who most recently held the role of senior broker at Crombie Lockwood, but she says Frank Risk offered her the chance to join an “exciting disruptor” in the industry – particularly when it comes to culture and client care.
Frank Risk Management Opens Auckland Branch
Furthering its commitment to championing transparency as New Zealand's first broking and risk management company to provide full income disclosure to all its clients, Frank Risk Management (Frank Risk) has launched a new Auckland branch and has appointed Anna Parker to head up the operation and help ignite a new phase of growth for the company.
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.
