Conference Sponsors
Gold Level
The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) is a voluntary membership organization serving the interests of more than 10,000 independent insurance brokers across the Province of Ontario. Working together, we are able to build and maintain a business environment that allows individual brokerages to thrive.
IBAO represents our members' interests to government ministries and regulatory bodies, as well as to insurance industry commissions and associations. These bodies recognize us as the authoritative voice of Ontario's independent brokers.
Through membership in the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC), IBAO also ensures that the needs of Ontario's independent brokers are taken into account whenever the Canadian government or the insurance industry seek to introduce policy shifts that affect brokers across the country.
For more information, visit www.ibao.org
Our name is our promise
It’s simple, easy, not complicated at all. We’re here to do our very best to protect the things your customers care about. We’ll use our strength as Canada’s largest home, auto and business insurance company to get your customers back on track should they need us, because that’s our promise.
As a broker you're successful because your priority is satisfying your customers. We get that. We admire that. It's one of the important things we have in common. We want to help strengthen your business by building on our common ground; our proud Canadian roots and our shared focus of putting the customer first.
Because when you succeed, we succeed.
For more information visit www.intactinsurance.com
Silver Level
Cookson Walker Consulting is a comprehensive consulting organization with a proven track record in assisting business organizations in all aspects of their operations from strategic business planning, operational reviews, financial management and human resource issues to tax planning and technology. Cookson Walker Consulting has the practical expertise and formal training to assist you in achieving your goals.
For more information visit www.cooksonwalker.com
Bronze Level
CG&B is the preferred one-stop provider of integrated financial solutions. Our domestic and international clients include business and private individuals who benefit from the expertise of our staff of over 180 professionals.
Our people have detailed and diverse training in the intricacies of the insurance marketplace. We have the integrity you depend upon. Our 30 plus years of steady growth is your assurance that we can and will back what we sell.
As brokers we bridge the gap between your needs and what the market offers. We choose from the most respected Canadian and International insurance companies to bring you the most reliable coverage at the lowest true cost.
Our pro-active approach focuses on regular review of your insurance portfolio – identifying potential risks, and providing appropriate solutions, before they can become a problem.
Our unique combination of general insurance resources along with specialty departments such as Professional Liability and International business, allow CG&B to address the varied needs of the public and the insurance brokerage community.
For more information visit www.cgbgroup.com
The Edge Benefits design, distribute and administer insurance plans that provide simplified living benefit solutions to the consumer. The EDGE introduced conditionally renewable disability plans into the Canadian insurance market in 1993, and since that time have led the industry with innovative solutions that provide affordable "lifestyle protection" for all Canadians.
Examples of the many features that make the EDGE plans unique in the marketplace are; providing loss of income coverage for the self-employed, based on Gross Revenue; having a low price Quality Guarantee and providing a North American toll free number to assist clients with all their questions. As well, the EDGE's Customer Care Unit offers a claims packaging service, liaising with insurance partners on the client's behalf to help with the claims process.
All of the EDGE plans, including Disability, Guaranteed Issue Critical Illness, Final Expense Benefits and Accident coverage, follow a simplified issue processes. The Edge Benefits is proud to be an independently owned and operated Canadian Company. All EDGE Plans are developed and administered by The Edge Benefits Inc., partnering with leading insurers to provide a wide range of Lifestyle protection.~ Simply.
For more information, visit http://webportal.edgebenefits.com/
The Hallmark Group believes that distributors of risk management and financial services must bring value to their client or customer, independent of the insurance transaction itself. Their to risk management provides our clients with a comprehensive plan for long-term risk reduction that leads to increased profitability, and facilitates access to the best insurance companies at the best possible premiums.
Hallmark has built an array of value added services that focus on reducing the risks that individuals, organizations or businesses face. By advising our clients on how to best identify risks to their personal and business plans, and reduce the full range of costs of those risks, we demonstrate significant value to them.
Our clients are reassured that the things that matter to them are going to be there, because of how we manage their Total Cost of Risk. Whether it is our organizational clients who are growing their organizations, seeking out new markets, developing new processes and adding more staff, or our personal clients who are accumulating and protecting assets and gaining responsibilities as they mature, Hallmark is there is ensure smooth navigation through any shoals, icebergs or minefields that might be in their path.
Our clients work with us because they know that they can trust us. Our multicultural brokers understand the businesses that their clients are in, and have expertise in those sectors of the economy — to knowledgeably focus on the long-term continuity and asset protection of our organizational and personal clients.
We have welcomed the staff of many brokerages into our corporate family over the years to our mutual benefit and look forward to discussing succession plans with producers, owners and shareholders.
For more information, visit www.hallmarkins.com
