The great escape

Many brokers have thought about selling their business and leaving the industry. Marcus Alcock weighs up the options and asks if some brokers have left it too late

There comes a time when even the most successful old hand realises that the time is right to leave the insurance industry. Given all the publicity the matter has received in recent years and with the reality of the brave new world that is statutory regulation, is there an insurance broker of a certain demographic that has not considered whether the time is right to exit?

With the extra bureaucracy that regulation has inevitably brought with it, and the increasing pressures placed upon many small