{"id":628585,"date":"2026-10-12T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:36:26","slug":"anziif-names-2026-nz-insurance-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628585\/","title":{"rendered":"ANZIIF names 2026 NZ insurance award finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF<\/a>) has announced the finalists for the 2026 New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards. This year\u2019s programme adds a category recognising advice-led business models.<\/p>\n

The awards span general and life insurance, broking, claims, underwriting, insurtech, financial advice, professional services and service providers, ANZIIF said. Finalists for Insurtech Start-Up of the Year and Large Broking Company of the Year will be announced on the night.<\/p>\n

The new category is Financial Advice Provider\/Authorised Body of the Year, which ANZIIF said recognises the growing importance of advice-led models in delivering strong customer outcomes. Invicta Financial, Resure and RIVAL Wealth are the finalists.<\/p>\n

ANZIIF CEO Katrina Shanks congratulated this year\u2019s finalists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe calibre of this year\u2019s finalists reflects the professionalism, innovation and commitment to customers that continue to strengthen New Zealand\u2019s insurance industry,\u201d Shanks says. \u201cWe look forward to bringing the industry together to recognise their achievements and celebrate the people and organisations setting the standard for excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 awards will be held at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at a new venue for the event, ANZIIF said. Last year\u2019s ceremony took place at Cordis, Auckland. The ANZIIF Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced on the night following a separate industry nomination and judging process.<\/p>\n

Some finalists are returning from last year\u2019s results<\/a>. Blanket Advice was named Small to Medium Broking Company of the Year in 2025 and Delta<\/a> Insurance won the underwriting award. Three of this year\u2019s Young Insurance Professional finalists work at Marsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2026 finalists by category<\/p>\n


\n\tBroker Network of the Year: Community Broker Network New Zealand; Insurance Advisernet<\/a>
\n\tSmall-Medium Broking Company of the Year: Blanket Advice; Fundagroup Insurance Brokers; TWG Financial Services
\n\tFinancial Advice Provider\/Authorised Body of the Year: Invicta Financial; Resure; RIVAL Wealth
\n\tClaims Team of the Year: AA Insurance<\/a>; Asteron Life<\/a>; Chubb<\/a> Insurance New Zealand; Fidelity Life Claims Team; Godfreys Managed Services; Medical Assurance Society General Insurance Claims Team; Partners Life<\/a>; Vero<\/a> Insurance
\n\tGeneral Insurance Company of the Year: AA Insurance; Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance New Zealand; FMG<\/a>; Tower<\/a>; Vero Insurance
\n\tLife Insurance Company of the Year: Asteron Life; Fidelity Life; Partners Life
\n\tUnderwriting Agency of the Year: Delta; Emergence Insurance
\n\tProfessional Services Firm of the Year: Finity; McLarens; Morgan Home Repairs; Sedgwick<\/a> New Zealand; Wotton Kearney
\n\tService Provider to the Insurance Industry: Arc Projects; IVAA Contents Procurement; Johns Lyng; RedBook New Zealand; Simfuni; Xceedance
\n\tYoung Insurance Professional of the Year: Anika Thomasson (Sedgwick New Zealand); Chloe Keen, Darcy Hughes and Irene Chiang (Marsh); Erika Cox (McLarens); Joey Gregory (SHARE NZ \u2013 The Advisory); Musa Olatunji (Godfreys Chartered Loss Adjusters); Nick Swiney (Medical Assurance Society); Sam Paterson (Fidelity Life); Tahlia Rogers-Brown (Zurich<\/a>)
\n\tInsurtech Start-Up of the Year and Large Broking Company of the Year: to be announced on the night <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) has announced the finalists for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194107,68793,111,103644,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-628585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-anziif","tag-finalists","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-insurance-industry-awards","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}