HEATH LAMBERT ESTABLISHING ITSELF IN MALAYSIA

Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance broker Heath Lambert has formally launched a Malaysian joint venture, after linking up with locally based broker Antah last year. The resulting firm, Antah Heath Lambert, is now beginning to establish itself in the Malaysian market, and together with sister local operation Heath Lambert Asia Pacific has won contracts to insure assets worth more than MR63bn in the past few months. Heath Lambert managing director Adrian Colosso said of the launch that the group “saw the potential of the Malaysian market some time ago” and recently its “business and reputation in Malaysia has gone from strength to strength”. He added that Heath Lambert possessed “an enormous wealth of intellectual capital and technical skills that we can bring to the Malaysian market” and said that “by investing in further training and developing of our people and partners in Malaysia, we aim to secure our position as the pre-eminent broker in our chosen sectors and to help develop the risk sector in the region”.