Distribution sits at the centre of growth for insurers, brokers, and MGAs, determining how effectively products reach the right markets and partners. Success depends not only on speed to market, but on maintaining strong relationships, clear oversight, and consistent performance across increasingly complex distribution ecosystems.
Distribution Challenges
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:
- Speed to market with governance and control
- Partner autonomy with oversight and accountability
- Growth ambitions with operational efficiency
- Transparency across increasingly complex ecosystems
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 help organisations achieve faster market entry with stronger governance, improved efficiency, and clearer performance insight.
Distribution becomes more agile, transparent, and scalable—supporting sustainable growth while reducing operational and regulatory risk.
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 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 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.
