A store-studded event.
The supply of financial services in the retail sector is growing in popularity with insurers but Simon Threadgold asks whether they are risking alienating brokers through these links and indeed whether they are a profitable source of business.
Who would be an insurance broker? Not only are banks nibbling attheir territory, they are also threatened by supermarkets, public
utilities and affinity groups who are all selling policies
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