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 […]

Starting your own insurance firm requires an Olympian effort doesn’t it?  You might think so, as everyone – including ourselves at Gauntlet Enterprise and Gauntlet Group – know that starting a new business, and becoming a new start-up insurance broker, takes a lot of resource and effort. In the insurance sector, with regulation as it […]

Whilst setting up your own insurance brokerage and becoming your own boss, with your own business and hours of work, is an attractive proposition, life may not be as rosy, if it does not suit your skill set.

If you are an insurance account executive, good at sales but purely driving money into the pockets of employers, you may well have considered going it alone.

If you are an insurance account executive and talented salesperson, who is searching for a new career opportunity, it could pay to get your head around the terminology very quickly.