Biba 2026: Acorn Group-owned MGA launches first fleet product on Acturis

MGA Granite Underwriting is joining software house Acturis panel for its van mini-fleet proposition to serve commercial brokers.

That is according to Granite Underwriting’s managing director Alistair Rose, who spoke to Insurance Times during the Biba conference in Manchester this week (13-14 May 2026).

Having not launched products on software houses previously, Rose said that the van fleet proposition is set to “pilot launch within the next few weeks” with a “full scale launch over the course of the next month or two”.

He added that the motor MGA has plans to expand the “mini-fleet product offering on the software houses over the course of the next two years”.

“At the core of it, brokers want two things from insurers,” he continued.

“First, they want to be able to trade easily and, particularly for smaller, more straightforward risks, a digital trading solution is what gives them that, which is why across all of our products we’ve been investing heavily over the last year in our new eTrading portal.”

“For me, going on to the software houses is a natural extension of that. We know brokers like software houses because it enables them to compare prices from the different insurers that sit on their panels alongside each other.

“By integrating with the Acturis panel on mini-fleet, it will be front of mind for insurers when they’re thinking about where to place a risk.”

Further launches

The MGA is also launching in the courier space in mini-fleet next week, Rose revealed.

He told Insurance Times that the firm has “chosen to launch with two brokers” with expertise in small courier fleets.

He said: “A trend that we’ve heard universally from brokers, maybe increasingly so in soft market conditions, is that they are looking for something unique and something a bit different.

“We’re looking to build deep relationships with partnerships and that’s more than putting a rate out on a panel and [telling] a broker [to] take or leave it.

”It’s the combination of being able to work with them on individual risks, but more strategically, to identify segments of the market that it makes sense for us to work together to grow and develop our businesses.”