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Life as an insurance broker may not appear too stressful.  It’s not firefighting, after all.  However, for many directly authorised brokers, often trying to provide broking services to their local community as local insurance brokers, life in their insurance brokerage is all about fire-fighting. For many smaller directly authorised brokers, a huge amount of time […]

During December 2022, Gauntlet has taken the opportunity to use the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, to highlight some of the benefits of being an Appointed Representative with Gauntlet.  The 12 gifts also allowed us to cast more light on some of the features that make the network so strong for Appointed Representatives. […]

If working in an employed insurance sales role is getting you down, or you just don’t fit the new company culture after a consolidator’s purchase of your former employer, it may well be time to consider whether or not you should go it alone. If you want to know more about how to start an […]

Over the past few months, we’ve been explaining the model that Gauntlet Group has pioneered – and which other networks have sought to copy – Gauntlet De-authorisation Fast-track (GDF).  But now, we want to explain it in a different way, as it’s occurred to us that it’s pretty much like looking at a deconstructed dish […]

Is Imposter Syndrome holding you back from becoming an appointed representative and starting your own insurance broking business, becoming one of the new broker start-ups of 2021?  The chances are that it might be. If you don’t know what it is, it’s that little voice in your head that tells you that you’re not good […]

Our 2021 Gauntlet Appointed Representative Conference took place in glorious sunshine in Harrogate, where we commandeered several rooms at the Old Swan Hotel – the venue in which Agatha Christie holed up, during her mysterious ‘disappearance’. The suspense as to who had won our 2021 AR Awards remained until dinner and we shall leave the […]