MGA Model Evolution in Asia
1 Reinsurer
Reinsurers focus on four scenarios to reshape and adapt their
business model to be ready for the future
Development scenarios for reinsurers
Scenarios description
1 Orchestrating an ecosystem 2 Providing a Tech stack
Description Reinsurer connects with different
Success
factors
organizations to broaden product
portfolio and exploit new business
opportunities
> Building attractive offerings or a
new entity to connect to new
stakeholders is key
Challenges > Building connections to not 100%
suitable partners and not deriving
benefits from those alliances
Reinsurer is mainly responsible for
building a powerful tech stack of
the new offering for the primary
insurer
> Strong IT know-how
> Big developer and service team
> Insufficient technology know-how
within the company
> Old-fashioned IT systems
Responsibilities of scenarios along the value chain
1. Reinsurance
services
2. Risk
taking
3. Pl
license
4. Technical
platform
5. Brand
3 Offering TPA services
Reinsurer acts as a third party
provider and makes sure that all
backend processes (e.g. claims
and services) are running smoothly
> Smooth and lean processes
> Good reputation to be able to act as
partner for primary insurers
> Bad technical infrastructure (e.g. to
forward claims in an appropriate time)
6. Product
(incl.
underwriting)
Roland
Berger
4 Offering MGA services
Reinsurer builds a specialized
type of insurance agent or broker
that has been granted
underwriting authority by a
primary insurer
> Customer-centric approach
> Scalability in different markets
> Finding no Pls in the respective
market to be able to scale the
product
7. Policy
administration
8. Service
9. Claims
management
10. Sales &
Distribution
1. Ecosystem
2. Tech stack
3. TPA
4. MGA
= covered by reinsurer
= can be covered by reinsurer or Pl
= covered by Pl
Source: Roland Berger
20200525_MGA model evolution Asia_vf.pptx | 12View entire presentation