All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 30 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at broker TigerRisk Partners, Mosaic Insurance and MGU Carbon Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here. TigerRisk Partners LLC, a leading risk,...
Mar 23 2022 // Acrisure, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based financial services and insurance brokerage firm, announced it is acquiring Volante Global, a multi-class, multi-territory international managing general agent (MGA).Headquartered in...
Mar 21 2022 // Taking a deep dive into the world of managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises, AM Best reports that premiums generated by DUAEs are climbing, and interest in MGA acquisitions remains...
Mar 11 2022 // Insurtech MGA Loadsure announced that it closed its $11 million Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures. Other investors included Crowley, a global maritime, energy, and logistics company, and existing investor...
Mar 7 2022 // Aventum, the London-based re/insurance group, has acquired Mulberry Risk, a boutique consultancy providing actuarial, analytical, exposure and capacity management services to MGAs.Financial details of the acquisition were...
Mar 4 2022 // Taking a deep dive into the world of managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises, AM Best reports that premiums generated by DUAEs are climbing, and interest in MGA acquisitions remains...
Mar 2 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.The insurance industry is riding a wave of insurtech and other digital advancements because there is a dire need to transform manual processes that have long hampered...
Feb 28 2022 // When Omaha National president and CEO Reagan Pufall thinks back to how COVID-19 has affected recruiting and hiring at the workers’ compensation insurance provider, his main verdict is: not much. The key...
Feb 24 2022 // Austin Texas-based MGA Sensa has partnered with Incline P&C Group to provide their personal auto insurance offering. Sensa will act as an MGA to offer its product through a network of appointed retail brokers and...
Feb 24 2022 // The co-founders of London-based Rising Edge aimed to create something different when they decided to launch a managing general agent in 2021, which focuses solely on directors and officers liability insurance.CEO Philippe...
Feb 23 2022 // Nexus Underwriting Management Ltd. (NUML), the London-based specialty managing general agent and intermediary, announced it will be renamed Kentro Capital Ltd. Nexus Underwriting (Nexus), the specialty MGA, and Xenia...
Feb 18 2022 // This edition of International People Moves includes appointments at AXA XL, International General Insurance Holdings and MGA Aqueous Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL to Promote De Rosa to Head...
Feb 17 2022 // Asta, the third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, and JPO Consulting, announced the launch of ARTes Specialty Ltd., an independent UK-based managing general agent (MGA), wholly owned by its founders and...
Feb 16 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.There’s no beating around the bush, the past two years have been rough to say the least. We are now almost 24 months into the pandemic and daily coronavirus cases...
Feb 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Fairfax Financial Holdings, AXA XL and SiriusPoint Ltd.A summary of these new hires follows here. Fairfax Financial Holdings Promotes Clarke to...
Feb 9 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Personal ask: Please take our poll.MGAs don’t always get a lot of love, and we at AgentSync are trying to change that. The last year was one of mind-expanding...
Feb 1 2022 // Aqueous Underwriting has secured increased capacity under plans to expand its foothold across the UK professional indemnity insurance market in 2022. The specialist managing general agent can now offer cover for limits up...
Feb 1 2022 // Cyber insurance and security provider Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions has created a captive reinsurance company.Through the Bermuda-based captive, Resilience will retain a share of each risk it underwrites. CJ...
Jan 24 2022 // Pen Underwriting announced two new long-term UK capacity deals with QBE in the highly specialist areas of public authority and higher education risks, as well as hazardous goods, environmental industries and tanker...
Jan 21 2022 // Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced it has entered into agreement with Ryan Specialty Group to support a diverse international portfolio of delegated underwriting authority business.With effect from Jan....