The Blog Spot: Ardonagh and Broker Network - will this lockdown family reunion have a happy ending?

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With Broker Network returning to the fold, Insurance Age content director Jonathan Swift reflects on why Ardonagh Group is looking Back to the Future as its plots post pandemic growth.

Roll back to March 23 – you might remember it as the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson formally announced the strict lockdown in the UK in light of Covid-19.

That was 2020.

Coincidentally, in 2016 the day marked the day Towergate sold its majority shareholding in Broker Network to Highbridge for £46m [less than half it paid for the business in 2007] as it announced its 2015 results.

Why are these two linked?

Because the announcement yesterday that Ardonagh [as the Towergate Group is now

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