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May 9, 2018

Start-up MGAs’ survival depends on brokers

Forming an MGA is relatively easy for experienced underwriters with a good opportunity and the support of insurers. The difficult part is acquiring a sufficient volume of quality business in a crowded market to ensure the effort doesn’t […]
July 30, 2020

Lloyd’s gets SIAB boost

Having helped to design the SIAB framework with Lloyd’s and following the launch of Carbon syndicate 4747, Asta’s CEO Julian Tighe talks to Mark Richardson at Reactions about how the model is designed to accommodate smaller, less complex businesses and to attract more entrepreneurial-type operations.