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Why benefits, retirement and wealth planning are now P&C profit centres

October 14, 2022 Philip Porado

Recent merger deals announced by Canadian commercial P&C brokerages increasingly feature acquisitions of wealth management and employee benefits firms, and this is no accident, brokers tell Canadian Underwriter. This subset of M&A is about P&C brokerages becoming a type of…

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How independent brokers can compete with the ‘big boys’

February 18, 2022 Gloria Cilliers

Of the list of things keeping independent brokers up at night, none is more daunting than finding ways to compete with an “overwhelming amount of consolidators swallowing the industry,” say members of Canada’s largest network of independent brokers. “It’s a…