For insurers, brokers, and MGAs, success in distribution depends on reaching the right audiences quickly while maintaining strong relationships across increasingly complex ecosystems. Speed to market is critical, but it cannot come at the expense of control, clarity, or long‑term value creation.
The Challenge
This tension is most evident in delegated authority models. Empowering partners to underwrite and distribute on your behalf unlocks scale and agility, but introduces challenges around oversight, performance management, and compliance. As distribution models evolve, organisations must balance rapid market entry with efficiency, consistency, and transparency across the value chain.
Our Approach
Our Insurance Integrated Solutions draw on decades of distribution and delegated authority expertise, combined with advisory, change management, and technology delivery. We help organisations rethink distribution end to end, embedding data, digital platforms, and agentic AI to enable real‑time performance insight and stronger collaboration.
The Outcome
We enable faster market entry with stronger governance, improved efficiency, and actionable insight—reducing risk, lowering cost, and enhancing partner performance. Distribution becomes a more agile, transparent, and high‑performing capability.
Our Core Solutions
Our Distribution Advisory helps insurers, MGAs/MGUs, programme administrators, and broker networks turn distribution into a predictable and repeatable growth engine.
Our Delegated Authority Modernisation solution lets insurers create an integrated, end‑to‑end operating model that strengthens onboarding, bordereaux processing, data quality, compliance, and oversight.
Our Distribution Incubator helps insurers, MGAs/MGUs, programme administrators, and embedded or affinity partners launch new channels and programmes quickly, safely, and with reduced risk.
Distribution Managed Services operates and continuously optimises an insurer’s distribution engine so growth can be scaled with lower cost, stronger compliance, and predictable outcomes.
Our Distribution Solutions helps insurers, MGAs/MGUs, brokers, and programme administrators accelerate profitable distribution growth by designing, launching, and optimising the right channels, partners, and operating models.
Our Distribution Technology provides insurers, MGAs, and brokers with a real‑time unifying data, integrations, and seller‑friendly tools across the distribution ecosystem.
Julie Zimmer
Partner
Julie Zimmer is a Partner within the Insurance Consulting industry at Davies, where she leads strategic initiatives across the insurance distribution ecosystem. With a career spanning over three decades, she has built a reputation for transforming how carriers, brokers, agencies, MGAs, and embedded providers access markets, serve customers, and scale through modernised distribution strategies.
Julie Zimmer
Partner
Julie Zimmer is a Partner within the Insurance Consulting industry at Davies, where she leads strategic initiatives across the insurance distribution ecosystem. With a career spanning over three decades, she has built a reputation for transforming how carriers, brokers, agencies, MGAs, and embedded providers access markets, serve customers, and scale through modernised distribution strategies.