Active Re Promotes Specialised Knowledge Exchange Through a Seminar on Delegated Underwriting Authorities and MGAs

PRESS RELEASE

 

Panama City, July 2026 — Active Re held its first specialised seminar on Delegated Underwriting Authorities (DUA) and Managing General Agents (MGA), bringing together representatives from the insurance and reinsurance market, including brokers and ceding companies.

 

With this event, the company launched a series of in-person seminars to be held across different regions, with Latin America serving as the starting point for an initiative designed to strengthen knowledge exchange, promote best practice, and deepen relationships with key industry stakeholders.

 

This first edition forms part of the LATAM Business Development initiatives led by Juan Antonio Niño R., focused on creating strategic engagement opportunities and supporting the company’s business development efforts across the region.

 

Throughout the session, participants explored key topics to better understand the operation of DUA/MGA structures, their application in international markets, and their role in the placement of complex facultative risks. The programme covered the conceptual foundations of delegated underwriting authority, including its principles, characteristics, advantages, and challenges, as well as the role of MGAs, their relationship with delegated authority, and how they differ from reinsurance brokers.

 

The seminar also addressed technical and operational considerations related to coverage terms and clauses, bordereaux, reporting, and claims processes under coverholder arrangements. The agenda further included practical case studies on the relationship between ceding companies, brokers, and international markets, with specific references to the LATAM and United Kingdom markets.

 

“As this is our inaugural training seminar, and the purpose was not to exhaust the topic, but to provide a solid introduction, a first look at the tip of the iceberg, to understand how MGAs operate, the value they bring, and the services they provide. With this common foundation, we can all speak the same language and continue building on it through future forums that explore these topics in greater depth. Most importantly, these gatherings allow us to create and strengthen connections within the industry. We believe in knowledge transfer and collaboration. Keeping this information to ourselves does not create value; our mission is to generate ‘benefits for all,’ and that is exactly what we seek to promote through spaces like this,” said Robert Ali, Chief Operating Officer of Active Re.

 

Ali has more than 20 years of experience in the reinsurance industry, leads Active Re’s DUA team, and currently heads the company’s global growth initiatives and strategic alliances with MGAs. He was joined by Sebastián Barrera, DUA Manager at Active Re, who has more than 10 years of experience in insurance, and Luis Tapia, DUA Coordinator, whose work focuses on capital optimisation and the development of efficient DUA and retrocession structures.

 

Through initiatives such as this, Active Re reaffirms its commitment to the technical development of the market, the transfer of specialised knowledge, and the strengthening of long-term relationships with its strategic partners across the region and globally.

 

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About Active Re:

Active Re is a Barbados-based reinsurer established in 2007. The company comprises 91 professionals located in 17 cities across 15 countries around the world, maintains a diversified geographic business presence in 129 countries across Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia Pacific, and focuses its underwriting efforts on short-term, non-catastrophic risks.

 

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