Managing General Agents Association (MGAA)
How MGAs can continue to transform in 2025
Trade Voice: As the underwriting capacity of the Managing General Agents’ Association’s membership tops £15bn, CEO Mike Keating looks at the trends that will shape the MGA market in 2025.
Diary of an Insurance PR: Full Circle’s Kirsty Plank
Kirsty Plank, director of Full Circle Communications, shows her appreciation of Dolly Parton’s lyrical genius, gets a boost from Pepsi Max as she compiles social media engagement reports and turn journalist when she interviews Insurance Post’s content…
Fronting insurers and traditional carriers vie for MGAs’ favour
Managing general agents may be able to reap more of the reward of their underwriting activity by partnering with fronting insurers rather than traditional carriers, Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell has said.
MGAA’s Keating says insurers must hold their nerve on rates
Trade Voice: History tells us that a sensible, hard market is often followed by a more unruly soft market. Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents’ Association, urges insurers to not sacrifice technical underwriting on the altar of new business.
MGAs must ‘hold capacity providers to account’ over service
A panel at the Managing General Agents’ Association conference earlier this week has urged MGAs to hold their capacity providers to account, as members emphasised the importance of “diversified capacity”.
MGAA’s Keating on the need for more data sharing
Trade Voice: Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents’ Association, says data sharing is a two-way street and capacity providers need to be more open with MGAs.
Why the MGA sector will advance in 2024
Trade Voice: Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents' Association, argues MGAs are uniquely placed to meet the challenges that 2024 will bring.
Trade Voice: MGAA’s Mike Keating on why collaboration is key to delivering claims outcomes
Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents’ Association, examines why more than half of MGAs think improvements to claims processes are needed.
View from the Top: Bspoke’s Tim Smyth on inflation challenging MGAs
Tim Smyth, CEO of Bspoke Group (formerly UK General), says MGAs need to make their voices heard and engage regulators and policyholders on the challenges facing the sector.
Booze blamed for third of insurance employees facing prejudice
More than a third (37%) of insurance workers have seen sexist, racist, homophobic, ableist and ageist behaviour or heard discriminatory language in the workplace, according to a University of Nottingham study.
Trade Voice: MGAA’s Keating on why these are exciting times for MGAs
Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents Association, says the sector remains buoyant.
Diary of an Insurance PR: Full Circle’s Ant Gould
Ant Gould, director of Full Circle Communications, ghost-writes, pens press releases, reviews award entries and even puts on his tie to moderate an industry conference.
MGA service superior compared with ‘monolithic’ insurer approach
Standards have slipped for “big household name” insurers and MGAs have stepped up to offer a “tailor-made” service which is making them the partner of choice, brokers have revealed.
Trade Voice: MGAA’s Mike Keating on making insurance a more attractive career option
Mike Keating, chief executive of the MGA, says that the entire industry – and managing general agents in particular – need to work together to make careers in insurance more attractive to young people.
Podcast: What regulators have in store for insurers and brokers
Insurers hoping to see European Union rules ripped up this year are likely to be disappointed, Michael Sicsic, managing director of Sicsic Advisory, has warned in the latest Insurance Post Podcast.
Admiral launches telematics product; Generali partners with Supercede; FCA hires in enforcement
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
MGAA’s Keating on why a ‘tick-box’ approach to EDI is unacceptable
Mike Keating, chief executive of the Managing General Agents Association, said the trade body’s equality, diversity and inclusion training programme will highlight how companies cannot take a “tick-box” approach to the issue anymore.
Trade Voice: MGAA’s Mike Keating on why the outlook for 2023 is positive
Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents Association, says that despite external challenges, MGAs continue to demonstrate their value to their insurer and broker partners.
Diary of an Insurance Post Editor: Emma Ann Hughes
To give you a taste of one of our new features for 2023 – Diary of an Insurer - here is Diary of an Insurance Post Editor.
FCA urged to elevate 'shockingly bad' quality of data use
The Financial Conduct Authority must tackle the “shockingly bad” use of data in insurance by setting qualification requirements for scientists working in the industry, according to Tom Murphy, founder of Machine Learning Programs.
FCA to crackdown on insurers over ethnicity pricing penalty
The FCA will take enforcement action against insurers who fail to strip data biased against ethnic minority groups out of their product pricing and services, law firm Browne Jacobson has warned.