Convergence specialist
Andrew Tjaardstra meets Pierre Lefevre, former chief executive and chairman of Groupama Insurances, to find out how he intends his company's considerable investments in brokers to make a return for the French-owned insurer
It is a sign of the times that an insurer's chief executive says its largest area of growth in the last year has been through its broker acquisitions. Soft market turbulence and some extreme weather events have both shown why it could be attractive to have some brokers in an insurer's armoury.
Groupama's broking division, Gan UK, was set up in June to pull together its broker operations, which now include majority stakes in Macclesfield-based commercial brokers Bollington, City-based Lark and
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