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Briefing: Why MGAs should be brokers’ best friends

2025-09-18T10:00:00+01:00By

MGAs often bring a complementary skill set to the value chain table, enhancing brokers’ service proposition and encouraging innovation

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Opinion: Are micro firms buying commercial covers like a personal lines customer?

2025-09-17T08:00:00+01:00By

Market feedback has revealed that micro businesses of less than 10 staff could fall victim to buying commercial covers with a personal lines mindset, risking underinsurance and coverage gaps – how can the sector mitigate this?

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Clean energy revolution facing extreme weather challenge

2025-09-17T07:00:00+01:00By Tim Evershed

’These are perils that we haven’t really taken seriously in the past, given the emphasis on the US market, and now there are increasingly unmodeled events,’ says underwriter

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Tomorrow’s insurance leaders will come from overlooked places

2025-09-15T07:00:00+01:00By

‘To look for new talent, we need to explore avenues we’ve never explored and that includes both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum,’ says chief executive

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Briefing: Scaling with purpose – the private equity advantage in insurance

2025-09-11T08:00:00+01:00By

One of the most powerful advantages of private equity support is the ability to scale thoughtfully and invest with intent

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Should a bespoke regulatory framework be introduced for MGAs?

2025-09-10T07:00:00+01:00By

‘This isn’t about reducing oversight – it’s about right-sizing it to ensure that regulation supports, rather than hinders, the MGA model,’ says chief executive

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Mandy Hunt: The leader steering Clear Group’s MGA ambitions from ‘outside my comfort zone’

2025-09-08T07:00:00+01:00By

The broker and insurer alumnus is now firmly in the MGA market, with big plans around post-acquisition rebranding and new business incubation set to be delivered in the next 12 months

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Tariff-linked supply chain disruptions ‘worse than Covid’, complicating business interruption

2025-09-05T07:00:00+01:00By

’The problems that these businesses are now having to solve are ones of financial and economic assessment that interfere with the supply and demand curve, rather than ones of physical production and distribution capacity,’ says head

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Briefing: Navigating a soft market – what’s next for UK brokers?

2025-09-04T09:00:00+01:00By

Insurers, keen to fight for market share, are more likely to support brokers who can adjust to these market conditions

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Analysis

In Focus: The impending ‘peril’ of underinvesting in reinsurance talent

2025-09-03T07:00:00+01:00By

‘The real issue isn’t that reinsurance is too niche – it’s that we’ve failed to communicate its relevance and impact,’ says chief commercial officer

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In Focus: How should middle manager development into c-suite be prioritised and delivered?

2025-08-28T07:00:00+01:00By

With the industry’s war for talent often focused on attracting young, new talent into the marketplace, has specific training to fulfil c-suite succession vacuums by promoting middle managers fallen by the wayside? Industry professionals share their views…

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Briefing: Insurance sector has ability to steer road safety

2025-08-28T06:00:00+01:00By

Best practice for safer driving has been a focus following the government’s proposed road reforms in August 2025 – the potential impact of rule changes on claims means the industry simply cannot be a passenger in these conversations

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