The Beginning

TEn broking services
...was born from a belief that Insurance Brokers, particularly those run as accessible independent businesses, were in origin a peculiarly British phenomenon and it would be a shame simply to look on as their numbers here decline... for want of a re-inventive idea.

An industry that militates against start-ups and small business expansion, as ours does today, is one doomed to stagnation and, alas, to ultimate extinction from the world.

TEn does not accept survival of the biggest
as the only evolutionary option

We have effectively recreated the conditions prevailing during the 1970s, whereby an account executive working within a larger broker can decide to go do his/her own thing and start a broking business from a small serviced office or, indeed, a back-bedroom.

In 1971, one of our founders, Kedric Rhodes, did just that... and the business ran from a his mother's spare room for the first three years.

Of course, he was also able to spend his first day walking from one end of the Uxbridge Road in Ealing to the other, collecting a dozen agencies on the way.

In the 21st Century, that's the hard part! Likewise, gaining and maintaining direct authorisation by the FSA, as well as implementing all requisite systems.

TEn, quite simply, makes it possible again to do what people used to do in the good old day, by allowing new businesses to focus on their clients and not having to worry about anything extraneous to that.

Liberty Island

"Give me your tired, your poor,"
"Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

The inscription on the Statue of Liberty expresses much the same sentiment as the proposition TEn has placed before the Insurance market since its inception.

However, TEn is not especially a home for the disgruntled and the disenfranchised, rather we challenge the most entrepreneurial and the most motivated to dare to dream.

Anybody who knows the full inscription on the Statue of Liberty will have realised that we have left out the following line above:-

"the wretched refuse of your teaming shore"

Of course, we are none too keen on the idea of 'wretched refuse'; so (genuinely) only the brightest and the best need apply.