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Commercial brokers can look forward to a good 12 months in 2014 and Tony Cornell predicts it will be the best year since the credit crunch hit in 2008

When we look back at 2013, it may be regarded as the year when the commercial broking sector’s prospects took a turn for the better after some six years in the doldrums. Although there was little hardening of the market over the year as a whole, there were signs in the second half of a few rate increases. When the final figures for the industry are published, I would expect that overall commercial premiums would have risen, if only by 2-3%. The economy has started turning and, at last, there is