MGA Analysis – Page 5
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News AnalysisBriefing: The rise of alternative capacity providers certainly benefits MGAs, but where does it leave insurers?
As the prominence of MGAs grows, their potential for strong profitability has caught the eye of alternative capacity providers with designs on entering the ever-desirable insurance market
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News AnalysisBriefing: MGA seeks capacity to bust taboos in ‘untapped market’
New MGA actively encourages claims to adopt preventative stance around taboo healthcare field – here’s how its model could have helped me
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News AnalysisPet insurance sector can’t afford to let sleeping dogs lie where fraud risk is concerned
While the UK pet insurance market has grown rapidly in recent years, its ability to detect and combat fraud has not caught up – with the size of this problem not yet known
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News AnalysisAre MGAs torn between Lloyd’s boxes and company-backed paper?
’While Lloyd’s is making progress, it still has a way to go before its offerings rival those of its competitors in the company market,’ says chief executive
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News AnalysisMGA market continues to grow – but which are the best performing firms?
Insurance DataLab reveals which UK-based MGAs are ‘setting themselves up for a bright future’ with robust financial results
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IT InterviewTom Downey: Pen Underwriting plans to use M&A to build ‘a much more specialist, niche business’
Chief executive strives for MGA to be ‘magic in the middle’ between capacity partners and brokers as it looks to hit £1bn GWP by year-end
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News AnalysisIn Focus: What are the challenges in developing training programmes that consider hybrid work setups?
With hybrid working models now commonplace post-pandemic, how can staff training and skill sharing remain efficient when not in-person?
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News AnalysisRevealed: Which firms won at the Claims Excellence Awards 2024?
There were some lucky double winners on the night, while other firms picked up their first Insurance Times Claims Excellence Award – was it you?
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IT InterviewLouise O’Shea: CFC Underwriting aims to make complex cover understandable
Growth is on the agenda as new group chief executive explores geographical and product opportunities
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IT InterviewJonathan Davey: ‘I didn’t choose insurance – insurance chose me’
’I am going to be selective. I am young enough to want to keep my grey matter moving,’ says retired chief executive
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News AnalysisMike Keating: MGAs are 'part of the fabric of the industry'
The Managing General Agents Association’s (MGAA) chief executive says the organisation’s growing membership is increasing its broker driven business
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News AnalysisTechTalk: Climate change focused insurtechs support insurers to ‘insure the uninsurable’
Industry needs to ’adopt new technologies to future forecast’ because developing climate change risks are ’harder to insure as you can’t rely on historical data’, says senior manager
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News AnalysisThe Big Question: What are the biggest challenges set to hit brokers in H2 2024?
Insurance Times asks experts about challenges brokers face and what can be done to mitigate evolving threats
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How can parametric insurance policies improve processes for climate-related claims?
Insurance Times asks industry experts what impact parametric policies can have on climate-based claims processes
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How MGAs stop brokers being left ‘high and dry’ as capacity fears continue
’If we can’t service the broker quick enough, we’d lose the sale, they lose the sale, conversion drops and ultimately it hurts all of us,’ says head of broker development
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Are MGAs replacing traditional insurers and how are they differentiating themselves to grow market share?
Insurance Times asks industry experts how MGAs are standing out to supersede insurers and increase their market share
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News AnalysisBrokers reveal concerns about capacity for ‘under pressure’ MGAs
One broker highlights fears that MGAs may be looking ’to all sorts of weird and awful sources of capacity’
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News AnalysisWill insurers swipe right on covering dating apps’ unique risks?
Insurance brokers might hesitate to provide coverage for dating apps because understanding the ’unique risks associated with these apps’ often necessitates the ’expertise of a specialist technology broker,’ says head of tech, media and intellectual property
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News AnalysisThe Big Question: How can brokers stay updated on cyber security threats and offer effective risk management support to commercial clients?
Regardless of their size, commercial clients are facing an increasing number of cyber threats - but how can brokers help mitigate this evolving threat? Insurance Times asks six professionals how brokers can lead in this market
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News AnalysisReading the ransomware room: Cyber criminals set to ‘attack, shift, re-brand and strike again’ in 2024
The ’resiliency of threat actors’ in the ransomware arena is ‘noteworthy’, says chief information security officer
