New focus, same professionalism
Welcome to the new-look Professional Broking, redesigned and refocused to concentrate on the manager...
Welcome to the new-look Professional Broking, redesigned and refocused to concentrate on the managerial skills of the UK's top brokers. With its new design, we hope PB will continue to provide a concise and attractive guide to the most important issues facing broker managers.
With regulation by the Financial Services Authority, market consolidation, lack of capacity in the market and the launch of an industry-wide portal, brokers face a wider range of problems than ever before - they will need to stay in control to stay on top.
To help them do so, PB now contains a wider mix of features, reflecting the financial, economic, HR and leadership issues facing brokers, as well as drawing their attention to insurance industry problems. The issues on PB's regular management clinic page have been given more room, allowing complex questions to be answered more fully.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank PB's regular broker commentators for their continued help and enthusiasm. In particular, Terry Wellard has provided PB with insightful comments over a number of years, with Richard Sheikh picking up the baton in 2002. Though their spot has now been opened to a wider range of commentators, Richard and Terry will still contribute on a more occasional basis. I look forward to reading more of their thoughts in future and hope you do too.
In addition, many thanks to PB's other continuing contributors. Steve Knight, Jennifer Jarrett, Peter Staddon, Michael Lopian, Colin Jeanes, John Shetcliffe and Russell Guest have all provided expert advice to PB readers and I'm happy to be able to offer them more room to do so in future.
I would also like to welcome new addition Mark Grice.
I would also like to thank David Worsfold and various solicitors at Beachcroft Wansbroughs for their contributions to the parliament and legal page.
Their contributions have provided fascinating pointers on the factors shaping the insurance industry and I'm sure will continue to do so.
Finally, thanks to the readers for supporting PB. We hope you continue to enjoy the magazine in its new guise.
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