Optimism falls amongst brokers and insurers
Financial services survey shows optimism is down but business volume and profitability is up.
Brokers are less optimistic about their overall situation in the market now than they were three months ago, according to the latest Financial Services Survey from CBI and PwC.
The survey for the final quarter of 2014 found that 13% more brokers were less optimistic than they were in the third quarter, but that business volumes continued to pick up as expected with 19% more brokers seeing a positive result for the quarter.
According to the survey, profitability rose slightly during the three
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