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After being acquired by Axa in early 2008, SBJ Global Risks soon realised it wasn't core to the insurer's business.Mairi MacDonald talks to its senior executives about the management buyout that followed and revitalising the company.
When Axa started buying up brokers, one of the component parts did not fit the machinery of the new home-grown distribution arm as easily as the rest. The focus of the wholesale arm of SBJ, which the
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