Profile - MGAs: Breakthrough for MGAs

A cursory look at the trade press over the last six months indicates that the managing general agent (MGA) sector has been positively hyperactive of late. New MGAs are launching, consolidation is gathering pace, capacity and distribution deals are regularly announced and, unfortunately, some MGAs are going to the wall. All of which points to a sector going through a transformative process of sorts.

And despite the troubles that have intermittently plagued the sector, there is a sense that the