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AUB Group Limited
AUB Group is an insurance middleman that helps small and medium businesses find cover and connects them with insurers.
AUB Group is an insurance middleman. Small and medium businesses — a local builder, a dentist, a trucking firm — need insurance, but they rarely know which insurer will take their risk or at what price. AUB's brokers walk into those businesses, work out what could go wrong, and go shopping among insurers to build a policy that fits. The business pays AUB a commission, and often a fee, for that advice and paperwork.
The second half of the company is underwriting. Through agencies it owns or backs, AUB is allowed to sign insurance policies on behalf of big insurers, taking a slice of the premium and sometimes a share of the profit or loss. That is a different game from broking: instead of just arranging cover, the company is putting its own capital and judgment on the line. Much of this arms smaller, specialist brokers with products and technology they could not build alone. The whole thing runs on a simple engine: lots of small, recurring commission checks plus steady underwriting income, with costs that grow slowly. Insurance is sticky — businesses rarely switch brokers, and renewals arrive every year without much new selling. That makes the cash flow reliable, and AUB has spent it on dividends and on buying up brokers and agencies in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, which is also where it is exposed: soft insurance prices, a hard market turning, or a bad run of claims at its underwriting arm can squeeze profits.
Its main rivals are the big global brokers, Marsh & McLennan and Aon, plus Steadfast Group back home in Australia, though AUB plays mostly in the smaller-business end where personal relationships matter more than global scale. It was formerly called Austbrokers Holdings and is based in Sydney.
Saved answer · last researched 12 Nov 2026