Brown and Brown’s M&A strategy is ‘alive and kicking’ despite integration focus for 2025
UK retail chief executive confirms that broker is set ‘to focus on a smaller number of larger deals’ this year as it develops ‘really healthy pipeline’
Brown and Brown rolls out rebrand as part of One Retail strategic plan
Intermediary group doubling down on standardisation project after raft of M&A led to “fragmented” business and operations, says UK retail chief executive
Ex-Aviva chief executive joins Brown and Brown Europe board
’I look forward to assisting the team as they work to deliver on their future strategic plans,’ says appointee
Broker CEO Forum 2023: Broking mid-market ‘regeneration’ provides ‘opportunity’
Filling the UK’s ‘gap’ of ‘traditional £20m, £30m ebitda brokers’ following post-pandemic M&A boom is a ‘positive system’, according to Broker CEO Forum speakers
Brown and Brown Europe to bolster renewables expertise with broker buy
’The opportunity to become part of Brown and Brown was too good to miss,’ says managing director
Brown and Brown Europe set to snap up MGA in first acquisition since rebranding
’Occam sits exactly in our appetite for specialist underwriters with deep experience of the niches they cover,’ says underwriting boss
Chris Haggart: ‘Clarity of purpose’ around supporting partner brokers at Hedron Network
’Networks across the market have a part to play in making sure that the general quality of brokers in the UK is as robust as it can be,’ says broker network chief executive
What’s driving more UK brokers to sell up?
’The sentence we hear most often is ‘this world is not mine anymore’,’ says chief executive
UK dubbed ‘Wall Street of insurance’ as international interest in acquisitions grows
’I would not be surprised if there [were] more internationals coming into the UK,’ says co-chief executive
Briefing: American dominance of the broker market only set to grow
’In the next five years, there will be more transformative change than there has been in the last 25,’ says chief executive
The Big Question November 2022: How can brokers navigate cost of living client conversations amid insurers’ inflation hit rates?
M&A in UK broking: Diversification grows in importance amid ‘diminishing supply’ of targets
In Focus: Have commercial lines brokers been slow to pursue digital transformation and what progress has been made in 2022?
Briefing: Consolidating the consolidators in UK broking is on the cards
Chris Haggart: ‘Clarity of purpose’ around supporting partner brokers at Hedron Network
’Networks across the market have a part to play in making sure that the general quality of brokers in the UK is as robust as it can be,’ says broker network chief executive
Chris Haggart: Networks have ‘prominent’ role to play in supporting insurance intermediaries
’There are a huge amount of competing pressures and it’s important to have a partner who can support you through that,’ says chief executive
Mike Bruce: ‘We were in a great position before, but we’re in a better position now’
GRP’s recent purchase by American broker Brown and Brown will open the door for fresh M&A targets that the broker has not ’historically been able to make the maths work on in the past’
Bob Peterson: Still ‘headroom’ for pricing increases due to market ‘peaks and troughs’
Lonmar’s executive director of London market risk encourages Lloyd’s underwriters to return to the capital if they wish to retain the market’s ‘market leading, global position’
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