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 all you were promised, if you continued to work for a consolidated insurance business, has been delivered.  Maybe that is leaving you disillusioned and wanting a way out?  Perhaps you can see how much more you could earn if you started your own insurance business, or maybe seizing the day is all about achieving better work-life balance?

Reasons to want to seize the appointed representative opportunity

Seizing the day may also be down to you realising that your future as a directly authorised broker is rocky.  Maybe you cannot wait any longer to gain access to insurer agencies?  Perhaps the bill for IT would be too great to contemplate? Perhaps it is becoming harder to live up to the FCA’s expectations, if you are a small brokerage, with just a few members of staff, or maybe just you?

Or, perhaps you are someone who sold their brokerage a few years ago and you recognise just how much opportunity there is in the market, as customers reject the faceless insurance delivery that has accompanied consolidation?  Maybe ‘seizing the day’ for you is all about building another profitable insurance business and seizing the appointed representative opportunity in this manner?

Opportunities for brokers joining the Gauntlet AR Network

Whatever ‘carpe diem’ means for you, the Gauntlet AR Network has an answer.  By becoming a Gauntlet appointed representative (AR), you can benefit from the Group’s sizeable buying power and the accompanying commissions with which it is rewarded.

You can utilise the Group’s Acturis IT systems and all the bespoke features it has created to assist broker sales.

You can also benefit from PI cover, our compliance systems and our back-office administrative and accounting services.  With broking services available, if you want them, you could literally just focus on selling and on your client relationships.  Our team can run your office whenever you need to get away, or take a medical time-out.  And, you can do what many ARs do and run your office from abroad, if you want to take the laptop on its hols.

Routes to becoming an appointed representative

To seize the appointed representative opportunity, choose from one of four routes with Gauntlet:

• The standard route, for those ready to immediately move into self-employment

• Gauntlet Brokerage Builder – our try-before-you-fly option, where you build your future brokerage whilst still earning a salary

• Gauntlet De-authorisation Fast-track – for directly authorised brokers who recognise that future profitability lies in switching their status to appointed representative

• Gauntlet Phoenix – for second-time-around brokers ready to soar once more.

There is also a 5th way to seize the appointed representative opportunity with Gauntlet and join the Gauntlet AR Network.  We are increasingly seeing appointed representatives switch from other AR networks, so as to join Gauntlet’s. These ARs want stability.  The appreciate our ethics and transparency.  They want independent ownership.   They appreciate all the added extras and commission earnings that Gauntlet can provide because of its enhanced buying power.  They sometimes want to escape from chaos or bad organisational or man-managerial situations in their network.  Often, they want to work with peers who are professionals and who reflect their own standards.

With so much opportunity in the market, don’t delay.  Seize the day – and the appointed representative opportunity – by enquiring about the option that fits your needs.  Call Nigel Law on 07774 690436, or email NigelLaw@GauntletGroup.com