{"id":81185,"date":"2026-02-23T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=81185"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:56:46","slug":"mbs-insurance-acquires-honan-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/02\/23\/mbs-insurance-acquires-honan-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS Insurance Acquires Honan Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBS Insurance has acquired the life insurance arm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honan.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honan Insurance Group<\/a>. The deal adds four partners, including three risk specialists, to MBS Insurance\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Former Head of Honan Life, <strong>Katherine Beards<\/strong>, and risk specialists, <strong>Peter Blassis<\/strong>, <strong>Tyler Scarce<\/strong>, and <strong>Garth McLardie<\/strong>, have joined MBS Insurance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79516\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79516\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/10\/drew-burden-mbs-white-e1759290784349.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Burden\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Burden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under the arrangement, MBS Insurance will also take on a number of Honan Life Insurance\u2019s joint venture partnerships and referral relationships, with the life business falling under the MBS Advice license.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drew Burden<\/strong>, Partner and Co-CEO at MBS Insurance, said his firm is focused on growing and partnering with advisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur value proposition and advice capabilities have been built and refined over the past 20 years and we are strongly positioned to continue supporting advice firms to achieve their goals and objectives. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBS Insurance has acquired the life insurance arm of Honan Insurance Group. The deal adds four partners, including three risk specialists, to MBS Insurance\u2019s team. Former Head of Honan Life, Katherine Beards, and risk specialists, Peter Blassis, Tyler Scarce, and Garth McLardie, have joined MBS Insurance. Under the arrangement, MBS Insurance will also take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments","8":"category-company-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}