But despite Australia's strong international performance, finance and insurance is second worst sector domestically, as insurance and superannuation gap widens in last three years.
Morrow has been with Chubb for 15 years in various leadership positions and is promoted from his role as Head of Property and Casualty (P&C) for Chubb NZ.
Takahashi takes on the role from the retiring Emiko Maki and part of his responsibilities will be to strengthen the link between P&C and reinsurance operations.
