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  • How To Sell Your Insurance Brokerage

    How To Sell Your Insurance Brokerage

    Thinking of Selling your Insurance Brokerage? Now could be a very good time as cash rich buyers are queing up to buy books of business. Recessions are always good for both parties of buyers and sellers of insurance businesses. Buyers are looking to sustain a...

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  • End of The Line For Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions?

    End of The Line For Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions?

    There is conflicting evidence as to whether the UK Insurance M&A Market is contracting.Certainly it looks like some of the much bigger UK Insurance boys are up for sale! We sent our Insurance Newshound Kris Oldland out to find out who is up for grabs;...

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  • UK Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions: Could HSBC sale see Marsh and Aon on par again in 2010?

    UK Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions: Could HSBC sale see Marsh and Aon on par again in 2010?

    As 2010 warms up Insurance Blog has let resident Insurance journalist Kris Oldland give his UK Insurance insiders view as he plays Nostradamus with HSBC Insurance Brokers….. In a year that has seen considerably less Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions activity than we had become accustomed...

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  • Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Business?Despite the recession there’s never been a better time for selling your insurance business with demand and consequently prices high. Agglomeration of books of business and size are still driving factors when it comes to negotiating commission levels with the big Insurance...

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  • “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO

    “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO

    “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO By Insurance blogger Kris Oldland It appears that somebody else has spotted some of those fabled green shoots as Tony Ursano CEO of Willis capital markets and advisory, a unit of Willis Group Holdings made...

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  • Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    The grand old lady from carrot crunching country just couldn’t cut the mustard with the bosses of the Iberian sounding Aviva and will officially be given the fatal injection at midnight tonight. As an ex-employee of GA bonus (New Zealand Insurance) do I care? At...

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  • Massive Demand for Insurance Brokers to Sell or Merge

    Massive Demand for Insurance Brokers to Sell or Merge

    Leaving the current economic crisis to one side, there is more pressure on Insurance Brokers and IFA’s than ever to sell their businesses as it it reported that books of insurance business are exchanging hands for up to four times their value. Anne Malone –...

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