End of the honeymoon
While consolidators receive their fair share of criticism, no one can deny that in a number of ways they have had a positive impact on the brokering market but, as Edward Murray reports, they must now rise to a new challenge
Since muscling their way onto the broker scene towards the end of the 1990s, consolidators have become a permanent fixture of the insurance industry. They may not be to everybody's taste, but they have certainly shaken the market up. However the question remains as to whether this change has been to the benefit or detriment of all concerned.
It has always been easy to criticise consolidators and brand them simply as new kids swaggering onto the block with chequebooks at the ready and a
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