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Insurance Post’s Top 80 MGAs of 2025 revealed
Policy Expert is the UK’s biggest MGA thanks to an 8% swell in its customer base, reaching 1.6m policies for the first time this year.
Q&A: Phil Barton, Partners&
Phil Barton, CEO of Partners&, speaks to Insurance Post about the firm’s five year anniversary, it’s 2024 acquisitions, and why insurance needs more love.
Ardonagh’s rebrand; Google Cloud’s expansion; Insure Your Paws’ product
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
How to climb the insurance career ladder in 2025
The final Insurance Post Top Tips video of this year features almost as many famous faces as Band Aid’s epic video for 'Do they know it’s Christmas' did back in 1984.
ESG Spotlight: The ESG opportunity for SME brokers
As ESG becomes more important to SMEs, Saxon East says brokers can work with forward-thinking insurers to help their clients.
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”.
Best Insurance Employers to work for in 2024 revealed
First Central and Konsileo are the greatest large and small to medium-sized insurance employers in the UK respectively to work for, according to Insurance Post’s Best Insurance Employers survey.
British Insurance Awards 2024 winners revealed
Aviva was among the big winners with four outright prizes at last night’s (3 July) British Insurance Awards, on an evening where former British Insurance Brokers’ Association CEO Steve White was recognised with The Achievement Award.
CII Broking Community’s Patel on insurance’s war for talent
Trade Voice: Isha Patel, managing director for the South East at Partners& and a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Broking Community, says the industry needs to go above and beyond remuneration to attract talent.
Could the CMA fire the starting gun to unlock M&A in 2024?
News Editor's view: With increased M&A activity predicted for 2024, news editor Scott McGee asks: Is the industry waiting with bated breath to find out the outcome of the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into the Markerstudy/Atlanta deal?
Partners&’s Phil Barton on taking sustainability seriously today
View from the Top: Phil Barton, CEO of Partners&, says insurance brokers should be a model for their clients and not delay in taking sustainability seriously.
What NFTs mean for fine art insurance
Analysis: Edmund Tirbutt examines what the advent of non-fungible tokens means for insurers, and whether the industry is designing an array of cover for this emerging art form.
CII young brokers turn to TikTok to fight talent war
The Chartered Insurance Institute’s New Generation Broking Group is turning to TikTok and Instagram to attract fresh talent to the industry.
Markel launches construction proposition; Pen secures solcitors' PI capacity; Partners& acquires Nex Gen
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aviva, Crawford, Zurich and Amanda Blanc triumph at 2023 British Insurance Awards
Aviva was among the big winners at the British Insurance Awards 2023, on a night when its group CEO Amanda Blanc took home the Achievement Award.
Q&A: Fraser Edmond, Broker Insights
Broker Insights founder and CEO Fraser Edmond speaks to Insurance Post about the inefficiency of the commercial insurance space, bridging the knowledge gap between insurers and brokers, and how he hopes to more than triple the company's coverage by the…
View from the Top: Partners&’s Phil Barton on brokers' role as advisers in an unstable world
Phil Barton, CEO of Partners&, argues that a tumultuous world has put paid to a transactional approach to insurance and says larger brokers need to put clients before shareholders.
Intelligence: Keeping over-50s in the workplace
Alongside the ‘great resignation’, there are also concerns over a ‘brain drain’, with so many people over the age of 50 leaving full-time employment. Sam Barrett looks at what the insurance sector is doing to keep these people on – and attract some back…
Intelligence: The fallout from Russia without love
On 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. Edmund Tirbutt investigates how UK insurers have responded to the knock-on effect from the war, and the impact that this might have in the long…
Partners&'s Phil Barton on navigating the working from home conundrum
Returning to the old way of working might still feel safe now we are living with the Covid-19 pandemic, but Partners& CEO Phil Barton asks if it is the answer for the insurance industry and its customers.
Insurers are making it 'difficult' for drivers to insure their EVs
Insurtech figures say traditional insurers are “behind the curve” on electric vehicles because of nervousness and fear surrounding value chains.