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The Big Question: Why has UK broker M&A slowed – and what can UKGI expect next from acquisition activity?
With intermediary M&A deal volumes hitting multi-year lows, what is holding back dealmaking across the UK general insurance market (UKGI) – and what could potentially spur the next wave of acquisition activity?
Further reading
Regulatory tightening in UK M&A market ‘weeding out’ weaker distribution firms
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July offers ‘proof of life’ for UK insurance distribution M&A market
‘Transaction volumes remain muted, with a large number of the historically most acquisitive firms having either slowed down or quietly paused their UK M&A this year,’ says managing director
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Kelly Madeley: Industry must ‘make insurance exciting’ to attract talent
Ki’s chief people officer Kelly Madeley believes the insurance industry needs to widen its talent pool, embrace different career paths and work collectively to show young people that insurance can be a career where they make a difference
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Charles Bush: Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up
The insurer’s head of commercial claims says that although employees are the ‘most important assets’ within an organisation, they are also ‘one of the points of greatest weakness’
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