4 March 2015Insurance

Generalist brokers are dinosaurs, claims Aon Benfield boss

The old adage of ‘in a soft market you want a consultant, in a hard market you want a broker’ is simply not true anymore, Eric Andersen, CEO of Aon Benfield, told delegates at the Economist’s Insurance 2015 event yesterday (March 3).

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