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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, […]
The Appointed Representative Network for Complex Risks
Many brokers, dealing with complex risks and technical placements, believe such risks are not compatible with an appointed representative network. Many view AR networks as a wrapper of necessary services for start-up brokers placing easier business. Whilst they recognise that these services are useful, typically including compliance, accounting and money handling and administration, they do […]
Podcast Details 5 Powerful Gauntlet Appointed Representative Pathways
A new podcast has featured the five different routes to becoming a Gauntlet appointed representative, as Gauntlet Group announces its launch of a fifth pathway – Gauntlet Unite. The podcast, available here https://bit.ly/4im2ILw sees Gauntlet’s managing director, Roger Gaunt, talking through all of the ways in which insurance sales professionals and account executives can become […]
Are You Too Afraid to Start Your Own Broking Business?
Are you secretly too afraid to start your own broking business and becoming your own insurance boss? There has been talk of “pervasive pessimism” holding back the entrepreneurial spirit of Brits. Do you suffer that? Or maybe imposter syndrome? It’s time to focus on the positives. By backing yourself to succeed, you could open up […]
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 […]