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Jan 24, 2025
Council Brief: News & Insights from The Council
TALENT DEVELOPMENT

2025 Talent Development Programs for Your Teams

The Council offers interactive, industry-specific programs that have a qualitative impact on your staff’s performance and growth. Learn more about opportunities to invest in your team in 2025 through programs and courses designed exclusively for insurance brokerage firms.


2025 Working Group Experience: Attend Spring Working Groups

We’re excited to kick off the 2025 Working Group experience with the launch of Spring Working Group meetings, which bring together top minds in our industry for peer share and insightful conversation. Spring meeting registration is complimentary, creating an opportunity for you to invite several members of your senior team who would benefit from exposure to industry leaders in their field. All meetings will be held at/near The Council’s HQ in Washington, D.C. Preliminary agendas below are for planning/travel purposes.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Curious how your firm stacks up against its peers? The Council’s 2024 Brokerage Operations Benchmarking Report is now available!

Thank you to the Council member firms who participated in our first-ever Brokerage Operations Benchmarking Survey. Your feedback established a solid baseline for organizational growth, structure and operational challenges across our industry.

If you’d like your firm’s perspectives included in our 2025 report, fill out this form and we’ll contact you when the next survey launches. Here’s some key highlights from the 2024 Report:

  • 48% of responding firms indicated an organic growth rate between 8% and 14% in 2023.
  • Their current P&C and EB renewal commissions cluster between 25% and 34% of written premium.
  • 61% of their employee turnover was voluntary.

Download the report or review top-line results on Leader’s Edge.


Out Now: January/February Issue of Leader’s Edge

  • Youth in Crisis
    The crisis in youth mental health is an epidemic that has followed the COVID-19 pandemic, some healthcare professionals say. Addressing the crisis demands involvement by insurers, employers, primary care providers, schools, and even app developers.
  • Examining Loss Estimates
    The insurance industry has yet to truly grapple with loss creep, which is how property loss estimates can skyrocket by billions of dollars in the months after a natural catastrophe. Complicating factors such as climate change make modeling certain risks more challenging, but reassessing the data used and increasing transparency between insurers and reinsurers can help improve loss estimates.
  • Can ICHRAs Bridge the Healthcare Political Divide?
    Amid their never-ending battle over the existence and terms of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats and Republicans can seemingly at least agree on the value of individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs). But that’s just one aspect of the latest iteration of the ACA battle as Donald Trump returns to the White House.
MEETINGS & EVENTS

MEETINGS & IN-PERSON EVENTS
International Broker Challenge (Madrid, Spain) Feb. 25-27
Broker Smackdown (Washington, DC) Mar. 11-13
Marketing & Communications Working Group Mar. 19-20
Claims & Risk Management Working Group Mar. 31-Apr. 1
COO Working Group Apr. 9-10
HR Working Group May 7-8
Broker Smackdown (Washington, DC) May 13-15
CFO Working Group May 20-21
CIO Working Group Jun. 3-4
Legal Counsel Working Group Jun. 24-25
Broker Smackdown (Phoenix, AZ) Jul. 15-17
VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
Insurance Professional School for P/C Begins Mar.
Insurance Professional School for P/C Begins Sep.
It’s All About Risk On demand

We will continue to update this calendar with new in-person and virtual events and meetings as they launch. Bookmark our events & connections webpage for the most up-to-date Council calendar.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Joel Wood, President/CEO
The World Is Getting Riskier. Americans Don’t Want to Pay for It. (login required)
Wall Street Journal

Valerie Sindal, VP, Digital Strategy & Engagement
Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise

Harvard Business Review

Ken Haltenhof, VP, Membership
How Climate Change Is Reshaping Home Insurance in California and the Rest of the U.S.

NPR

Nick Lozano, Director, Technology
How to Get More Value from Your New Tech

McKinsey

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