Blog: What the Oak acquisition means for RSA, Zurich and the wider market
Jonathan Swift looks at whether RSA selling Oak Underwriting to Zurich is going to trigger a bolt-on bonanza - and if it really equates to Manchester United selling Carlos Tevez to Manchester City.
Yesterday I saw three words in a headline that I thought I’d not see again for a long time, if ever, based on recent past history.
I am talking about “Zurich”, “buy” and “RSA”.
Of course the story
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