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How Long to Start An Insurance Brokerage?
Account executives and talented insurance salespeople wishing to start an insurance brokerage have two ways to proceed. The first is to gain direct authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The second is to become an appointed representative of an authorised ‘principal’ like Gauntlet. Following a story that appeared in Insurance Age last week, the […]
Resolve to Join the Right Appointed Representative Network in 2026
Has the New Year convinced you that it’s time for a new start? Is your insurance sales career on a plateau and is it time for you to back yourself to succeed in your own brokerage? Or do you need to find a survival strategy for your existing brokerage or find an appointed representative network […]
How Smaller Directly Authorised Brokers Can Survive the Soft Market
Smaller directly authorised insurance brokers, who have focused on delivering a personal, quality-filled service to clients rather than on their brokerage’s growth, have become the victims of the soft insurance market in the UK. The prediction, however, is that the soft market will still be with us for around 13 months to come. So where, […]
How Property Agents Can Easily Sell Insurance in-house as an AR
Do you know what an insurance AR is? Well, if you are a worrying about impacts to your income as a property managing agent, following changes to insurance sales regulations, it could pay to find out. You could consider selling insurance in-house, using Gauntlet’s AR appointed representative option. This article tells you how. Property managing […]
Carpe Diem: the Appointed Representative Opportunity is NOW
It’s Carpe Diem Day (February 26) – one associated with seizing the day. For those dissatisfied with their insurance broking lives, there may be no better time to embrace this motto and grasp the appointed representative opportunity. You may wish to seize the day because the realities of insurance consolidation are hitting home. Perhaps not […]
10 Things to Look for in an Appointed Representative Network in 2025
Looking for an appointed representative network? As we head into 2025, many account executives with a dream of running their own insurance brokerage may be contemplating how to become an appointed representative and examining which appointed representative or AR networks are out there. With the appointed representative route the only feasible way of starting an […]