{"id":3865,"date":"2026-02-25T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/steadfast-groups-half-year-surge-signals-a-tougher-more-tech-driven-future-for-brokers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:15:48","slug":"steadfast-groups-half-year-surge-signals-a-tougher-more-tech-driven-future-for-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/steadfast-groups-half-year-surge-signals-a-tougher-more-tech-driven-future-for-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Steadfast Group&#8217;s half-year surge signals a tougher, more tech-driven future for brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Steadfast\u2019s international businesses, meanwhile, posted a sharp step-up in net revenue to $56.4 million, up 220.5%, helped by acquisitions and strong performance in specialty lines, including a contribution from Novum Underwriting Partners, acquired in August 2025, which the group said produced more than US$140 million in GWP and 60% organic growth. In a market where global specialty capacity and delegated authority models are evolving rapidly, that international expansion is likely to interest both Australian broker principals looking for cross-border capability and insurers assessing who controls access to specialty placement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steadfast\u2019s international businesses, meanwhile, posted a sharp step-up in net revenue to $56.4 million, up 220.5%, helped by acquisitions and strong performance in specialty lines, including a contribution from Novum Underwriting Partners, acquired in August 2025, which the group said produced more than US$140 million in GWP and 60% organic growth. In a market where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1529,455,1580,2571,2572,2570,1706,2574,2573],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-brokers","tag-future","tag-groups","tag-halfyear","tag-signals","tag-steadfast","tag-surge","tag-techdriven","tag-tougher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}