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The Capital Performance of Capacity Providers

Capacity Market Briefing Market Trends

Online

27th November 2025 • 13.00 - 14.00

About the session

The relationship between MGAs and their capacity providers is the cornerstone of delegated underwriting. But what happens when the financial strength of those providers shifts?

In this session, we’ll explore why capital performance isn’t just a number on a balance sheet — it’s a vital signal of stability, sustainability, and future opportunity.

You’ll hear why monitoring solvency, profitability, and financial resilience is critical for MGAs looking to safeguard long-term partnerships, maintain credibility with brokers and regulators, and protect their own reputation in the market.

Join us to gain actionable insights into how MGAs can use knowledge of capacity providers’ capital performance to strengthen strategic decision-making, diversify partnerships, and ultimately secure a more sustainable future.

About Insurance DataLab.

Matt and Dan launched Insurance DataLab to solve the increasingly difficult challenge of finding credible, comparable, and digestible information on the performance of insurance companies.

Learning objectives

At the end of this session, delegates will be able to: –

Describe the key measures of capital performance and how they apply to insurers providing capacity to UK MGAs
Explain how insurers’ capital strength influences underwriting capacity, product innovation, and MGA–broker relationships.
Summarise recent data on the capital performance of UK capacity providers and outline what it means for the sustainability of MGA partnerships.

Dan King

Co-Founder • Insurance Datalab

Dan has worked in the media and business intelligence sector for more than 25 years, managing market leading brands for many of the UK’s most respected publishing groups.

Much of his career has been spent in the insurance world having worked on the launch of Health Insurance magazine in the 1990s, led Insurance Times as publisher and worked closely with the founder of Fairer Finance in the 2010s, and more recently has been responsible for Global Reinsurance and the huge growth in its Dubai World Insurance Congress event.

Away from work, Dan lives in South London and is often found traipsing around the country following his home-town football club, Plymouth Argyle.

Matt Scott

Co-Founder • Insurance DataLab

Matt is an award-winning journalist who started his career as an Actuarial Associate Consultant at Aon where he studied towards the professional exams of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and completed an MSc in Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School.

As Insight Editor of Insurance Times, Matt reported widely on the UK general insurance market, focusing particularly on the financial and regulatory landscape. He has authored many well-respected research publications including the annual Insurance Times Top 50 Insurers and Top 50 Brokers reports, and is a regular speaker at industry events on topics including motor insurance, regulation, cyber insurance, customer service, and financial performance.

Matt is a keen martial artist and football fan, and when not in the office he can often be found enjoying the countryside of Dartmoor near his native Plymouth.