How Challenger Brokers Are Winning Clients in a Soft Market | TRP #171

Reinsurance brokers invest heavily in analytics, cat models, and back-office systems. Almost none of it faces the client. In a softening market where cheaper reinsurance is table stakes, Ben Rose and Tom Spier break down why the broker-client relationship is the one that actually needs the technology — and why most firms have completely overlooked it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why getting clients a cheaper deal is no longer enough to keep their business in a soft market
• How challenger brokers backed by private equity are forcing the big three to rethink their value proposition
• The structural reason brokers can't build client-facing tools in-house (and why clients don't want them to)
• Why the broker who meets the client where they already work will win over the one with the flashiest portal
• What cedents should be looking for when choosing between ten credible brokers instead of three

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OUTLINE & TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro01:57 How Supercede Started04:06 The Real Friction Isn't Between Broker and Underwriter05:54 The Broker Landscape: From Big Three to Top Fifteen08:13 Hard Market vs Soft Market: How Broker Value Shifts09:19 Cheap Reinsurance Is Table Stakes — Now What?10:31 What Brokers Actually Spend Their Tech Budgets On12:34 The Gap: Nothing Between Broker and Client13:56 Why In-House Portals Don't Work for Clients14:48 Analytics & the PDF Report Problem16:08 Meeting Clients Where They Are17:48 Minimising Change Management by Using Existing Workflows