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Selling your brokerage? Don’t forget to tell your clients

October 31, 2022 Michael Carey

Imagine you’re a client who calls your broker to talk about renewing a policy, only to find they’ve sold the business and moved to Florida. It’s hardly an elegant retirement notification. A client would much rather be told about the

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Why this mining and forestry brokerage expanded

January 24, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

Editor’s Note: This story has been changed to reflect the fact that the Sudbury branch is being led by a team of local insurance experts.   Gifford Carr Insurance Group, an Ontario-based personal and commercial insurance brokerage, is expanding into

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Merger mania: Multiple brokerage deals announced in May

May 11, 2021 by Jason Contant

May 2021 came in with a bang for Canadian brokerages involved in mergers and acquisitions activity, particularly in western Canada and Ontario.  Over the course of a week, at least seven acquisitions were announced in the Canadian P&C brokerage space.

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Brokerages snapped up coast-to-coast in latest M&A deals

March 3, 2021 by Jason Contant

Canadian brokerage acquisitions continue coast-to-coast with the recent purchases of four brokerages in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. Navacord, B.C.-based brokerage Waypoint Insurance, Archway Insurance and Westland Insurance Group (which bought two brokerages) all made acquisition announcements at

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COVID’s impact on brokerage M&A: Myth versus reality

December 10, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult to raise money from major banks to finance mergers and acquisitions, but well-run brokerages will still be attractive to buyers, suggests an expert in brokerage valuation. “When COVID hit, the banks

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Guy Carpenter names new head of Canadian operations

August 5, 2020 by David Gambrill

Peter Askew has been named president and CEO of the Canadian business of global reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Company LLC, a business of Marsh & McLennan Companies. Effective immediately, Askew will be responsible for Guy Carpenter’s reinsurance broking activities

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Speculative ripple effects of the Aon-Willis merger on the Canadian reinsurance scene

March 20, 2020 by David Gambrill

Aon plc’s announced agreement to acquire Willis Towers Watson in early March for $30-billion in an all-stock deal raises a host of interesting speculative possibilities for Canada’s reinsurance market, a former reinsurance executive in Canada told Canadian Underwriter recently. Among

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These Canadian brokerages are re-branding to NFP

February 26, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Dalton Timmis Insurance Group Inc. and McLean Hallmark Insurance Group Ltd. are among the Canadian brokerages who are now adopting the NFP brand name, New York City-based NFP announced Tuesday. NFP closed its acquisition of Toronto-based McLean Hallmark this past

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How brokers can talk clients out of declining coverages

July 10, 2019 by Adam Malik

Companies looking to save a few bucks by declining certain insurance coverage options are putting themselves at risk, and it’s up to brokers to ensure their clients understand the consequences. What do you tell a commercial client who doesn’t want

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Is love in the air? Why it can hurt your brokerage

July 4, 2019 by Adam Malik

Brokerages need to have a formal workplace relationship policy in place. Otherwise, they’re at risk of things getting messy. Workplace issues like bullying and harassment are challenging enough; the problems are only compounded when you add a relationship to the

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How much of your salary would you give up for more meaningful work?

June 24, 2019 by Jason Contant

How much would you give up in annual pay for more meaningful work at your brokerage? A recent study of 1,500 Canadian office workers found that almost half of them would give up nearly $9,000 in an annual pay raise

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Lussier Dale Parizeau continues M&A activity

June 18, 2019 by Jason Contant

Quebec’s largest brokerage, Lussier Dale Parizeau, has merged with financial services firm Genius Financial Group. André Lussier, president of Lussier Dale Parizeau, announced the merger along with the four partners of Genius Financial Group: Jean-Pierre Gauvreau, Serge Gravel, Éric Émond