Why Brokers Lose Clients (and How to Fix It) | TRP #173

Reinsurance brokers are famous for remembering the small things — the underwriter's dog, the client's restaurant preference at Monte Carlo, whose birthday party they attended last spring. Less famous for: knowing why that market got signed down two renewals ago, or finding the email that explains a call a colleague is now questioning. This episode is about that gap, and why it costs more than the industry admits.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why annual reinsurance cycles mean brokers are always working from memories 12+ months old — and how that memory decays faster than anyone acknowledges
• What most firms actually track (signings, authorisations, quotes) — and why the gaps between those tiers quietly kill your leverage at renewal
• How staff movement strips firms of institutional knowledge, and what that means when a competitor tries to poach your client mid-RFP
• Why charming a counterparty and remembering their portfolio history aren't interchangeable — and why one without the other falls apart
• What CEO-to-CEO meetings could look like if the full relationship picture were actually accessible, not just a deal snapshot

TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Intro
01:34 Is closing the deal the end of the story?
02:13 How value leaks during & after placement
05:00 The email archive problem
08:00 What firms actually track
09:15 When human memory becomes institutional memory
12:00 Staff turnover and the knowledge exodus
14:20 Why brokers keep losing RFPs
16:00 Horror stories from the archives
17:15 Prepping meetings with half the picture
20:30 The case for technical recall

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