
Thursday 27th November 2025
Dublin Royal Convention Centre

Award Categories
The Expert Broker Awards feature ten specialist categories recognizing excellence across Ireland's brokerage sector, from traditional protection, pensions, investment, and mortgage services to insurance, wholesale operations, and innovative solutions. Each category celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional performance and customer service within their expertise area. These comprehensive categories ensure all aspects of professional brokerage excellence are recognized.
Nomination Process
Before starting your submission please carefully read about process here
Protection Broker Expert
The Protection Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional expertise in delivering comprehensive protection solutions with proven multi-year performance. This recognition honors professionals who built strong industry reputations through outstanding service quality, innovative technology use, and community contributions. Judges seek brokers offering differentiated services while maintaining superior customer service standards and earning industry recognition for educational achievements.
Pension Broker Expert
The Pensions Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional expertise in delivering comprehensive pension solutions with proven client returns across one, three, and five-year periods. This recognition honors professionals who built strong industry reputations through outstanding service quality, innovative technology integration, and superior investment guidance. Judges seek brokers offering differentiated pension services while maintaining excellent customer support standards and earning industry recognition for educational achievements.
Investment Broker Expert
The Investment Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional expertise in delivering comprehensive investment solutions with proven client returns across one, three, and five-year periods. This recognition honors professionals who built strong industry reputations through outstanding portfolio management, innovative technology integration, and superior investment guidance including risk management and compliance excellence. Judges seek brokers offering differentiated investment services while maintaining excellent customer support standards and earning industry recognition for educational achievements.
Mortgage Broker Expert
The Mortgage Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional expertise in delivering comprehensive mortgage solutions with proven advisory track records across one, three, and five-year periods. This recognition honors professionals who built strong industry reputations through outstanding service quality, innovative technology integration, and superior mortgage guidance including diverse lending options and compliance excellence. Judges seek brokers offering differentiated mortgage services while maintaining excellent customer support standards and earning industry recognition for educational achievements.
Innovative Broker Expert
The Innovative Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional creativity and innovation in developing new products, services, or business models that deliver measurable impact on their organization, industry, and clients. This recognition honors professionals who exhibit thought leadership through publications and speaking engagements while showcasing collaborative problem-solving abilities and adaptability in navigating market uncertainties. Judges seek brokers who demonstrate customer-centric innovation with tangible results including revenue growth, improved efficiency, and enhanced client satisfaction. The award acknowledges continuous learners who stay ahead of industry trends while delivering breakthrough solutions that set new standards in Irish brokerage.
SME Broker Expert
This prestigious award recognizes outstanding small and medium enterprise brokerages (1-5 employees) who, within their first five years of business, have demonstrated exceptional expertise, innovation, customer service, resilience, and achievement. Eligible firms must exhibit high-level industry-specific knowledge and proven excellence in their field, whether through products, services, technology, or customer solutions, while showing commitment to continuous learning and staying current with industry trends.
Personal Lines Broker Expert
The Personal Lines Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers who have excelled in the current economic environment through exceptional customer service, staff engagement, and demonstrated growth and profitability. This recognition honors professionals who respond effectively to consumer demands with innovative products, schemes, and offerings tailored to client needs while leveraging marketing, technology, and social media to increase profitable market share. Judges seek brokers who deliver outstanding overall performance with measurable evidence supporting their business achievements and client satisfaction levels. The award acknowledges brokers who set new standards in personal lines brokerage through strategic adaptation and operational excellence.
Wholesale Broker Expert
The Wholesale Broker Expert Award celebrates companies demonstrating exceptional commitment to meeting specific customer needs while delivering high-quality service across their wholesale business operations. This recognition honors professionals who show proven track records of innovative and profitable expansion in existing markets coupled with successful development of products and schemes for new market segments. Judges seek brokers who provide statistical evidence of performance excellence including comprehensive staff training programs, successful insurer partnership initiatives, and effective marketing strategies targeting niche audiences. The award acknowledges wholesale brokers who set industry standards through strategic market development and measurable business growth.
Commercial Lines Broker Expert
The Commercial Lines Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers (with over 50% commercial lines business) who have excelled in the current economic environment through outstanding customer service, sustained growth, and proven profitability. This recognition honors professionals who demonstrate exceptional overall performance while introducing innovative initiatives or effectively addressing specific market needs within the commercial insurance sector. Judges seek brokers who deliver measurable business results with comprehensive evidence supporting their performance claims and client satisfaction achievements. The award acknowledges brokers who set new standards in commercial lines brokerage through strategic market positioning and operational excellence.
Intact Insurance Sustainability Award
The Sustainability Broker Expert Award celebrates brokers demonstrating exceptional commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles while delivering sustainable financial solutions that benefit clients and communities. This recognition honours professionals who integrate sustainability into their business operations through innovative green products, comprehensive client education on sustainable options, and measurable environmental impact reduction initiatives. The award acknowledges brokers who are pioneering the future of responsible brokerage through authentic commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility.