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Top 100 UK Brokers 2025: Introduction
Another year, and another wave of consolidation and M&A taking out some major players from our annual Top 100 UK Broker ranking.
Top 100 UK Brokers 2025: £50m – £60m of UK general insurance revenue
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Partners& opens South West hub
Partners& has opened an office in Bristol and recruited two protection advisors.
Edinburgh regional review: Brokers push forward despite lack of physical insurer presence
Despite zero insurer presence in Edinburgh, brokers are still optimistic for the Scottish capital city as recruitment and a tougher economic climate are cited as the main the challenges.
People Moves: 28 July – 1 August 2025
Stay in the loop with the latest insurance personnel moves.
Blog: Young talent now will fix future recruitment challenges
With an ageing industry and recruitment being cited as one of the main challenges faced by insurance firms, bringing in younger talent into insurance is vital, but is the industry doing enough? Rosie Simms surveys the landscape.
Partners& strikes pair of deals
Partners& has bought Glasgow-based Blackford Group and Directors & Professionals, a commercial broker in Tunbridge Wells, in its first deals of 2025.
New commercial broker Monteith launches with £1m target in first three months
Scott McLuskey has launched Monteith Corporate Risk with offices in Glasgow and London targeting £1m of premiums in its first three months of trading.
Partners& creates nine leadership roles
Partners& has restructured its general insurance business creating nine new managing partners roles across the UK.
Partners& rebrands Scottish broker MacDonald Group
Scottish broker MacDonald Group is rebranding to Partners& following its acquisition in 2022.
MGA appoints Stuart Reid as chair
Specialist business health insurance MGA Equipsme has appointed Stuart Reid as chair of its board.
Partners& close to breaking even as turnover jumps £10m
Partners& has reported a pre-tax deficit of £55,954 for the financial year to March 2024, as it slashed losses again.
The stats: Q3 2024 – Return to growth across the board
Growth in average commercial lines premiums has picked up again in the third quarter of 2024, following a slow-down in the first half of the year, according to the latest Acturis Commercial Broking Index. Ida Axling reports.
Partners& in triple swoop
Partners& has added another two brokers and a managing general agent to its stable, Insurance Age can reveal.
Analysis: Placement strategies – are brokers turning the tables?
What is driving brokers’ decisions on which markets they use? While once it was insurers holding the aces, it now appears the boot is on the other foot, finds Rachel Gordon
Polaris at 30 – Stuart Reid
In the second Q&A instalment of the Polaris at 30 series, chair of Partners& Stuart Reid shares memories of the industry moving from paper rating guides to digital trading and his view on the “plainly daft” frustration in e-trading today.
People Moves: 18 – 22 November 2024
Follow the latest insurance personnel moves.
Top 100 UK Brokers 2024: Full table listing
Insurance Age is delighted to share its 2024 Top 100 UK Broker rankings supplied by Insuramore and sponsored by Open GI.
Top 100 UK Insurance Brokers 2024: Introduction
Welcome to the Top 100 UK Insurance Brokers for 2024, which Insurance Age has put together again with the help of Insuramore.
UK Broker Week: Stuart Reid on client service
In the buildup to UK Broker Week, chair of Partners& Stuart Reid discusses winning Broker of the Year 2023 and looks back to the past and forward into the business’s future.
