UK General's Karen Beales on why MGAs are the 'new black'
Regulators are forcing insurers to make more efficient use of their balance sheets and allocate capital where it can deliver the most effective returns, this allows smaller players in the market the opportunity to fashion insurance packages for special interest groups according to Karen Beales CEO of UK General.
At the Managing General Agents’ Association’s July Conference, delegates may have been left with the impression that MGAs have become supermodels - the Cara Delevingnes, Kendall Jenners, or the Gigi
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