Broking focus - SME: Survival of the fittest
Are brokers right to see SME as a 'safe house' for commercial insurance, Jakki May asks if direct insurers can really have an impact on the sector and how intermediaries can counteract this threat.
Back in the days when the little red telephone was something of a novelty, brokers wondered if there would ever come a time when insurers made direct in-roads into their distribution space in small to
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