Awards & initiatives
Excellence made visible
The Unternehmer-Ass and the Jungmakler Awards in Germany and Austria show what modern intermediary businesses achieve.
Awards & initiatives
Making excellence visible
Since 2006 Institut Ritter has honoured intermediary businesses that show what modern entrepreneurship in insurance distribution looks like. Together with partners, we also champion the next generation.
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Initiated by Institut Ritter · since 2006
Unternehmer-Ass
The award for Germany's Insurance Agency of the Year and Germany's Insurance Broker of the Year, together with BVK, AssCompact and Versicherungsmagazin. Presented at the DKM trade fair.
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Co-initiator
Jungmakler Award Germany
Launched in 2011 by bbg Betriebsberatungs GmbH: the young talent competition of the insurance and financial services industry. Steffen Ritter sits on the jury of the national casting and leads its workshop.
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Jury president: Steffen Ritter
Jungmakler Award Austria
The AssCompact Jungmakler Award by AssCompact Austria puts young brokers up to the age of 35 on stage. Presented at the AssCompact Trendtag in Vienna.
www.asscompact.at
How the Unternehmer-Ass is decided
- Intermediary businesses apply
- Assessment by a balanced jury from Institut Ritter, BVK, AssCompact and Versicherungsmagazin
- Final with five businesses per category
- Gold, silver and bronze presented at the DKM
The criteria are financial performance, strategic clarity, company culture, leadership and personal development.
“After two decades, the Unternehmer-Ass award has become an institution and, at the same time, a kind of community.”
Steffen Ritter
Winners
20 years
Since 2006 gold, silver and bronze have been awarded in both categories every year. All winners, their stories and the current call for entries are on the award website.
More initiatives The Zukunftstag deutscher Agenturen congress, Ritter Mentoring and the Vermittlerwelt online series add lasting support to the awards.
vermittlermentoring.de
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Tools, knowledge, training and “Frag Steffen” (Ask Steffen): on Vermittlerwelt, intermediaries work on their business every day. Six topic areas, one path from understanding to implementation.
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