Profile: Partners&'s Phil Barton and Stuart Reid
The broker connection: They have been broking rivals, and led the original consolidator boom, now the launch of Partners& sees Phil Barton and Stuart Reid combining forces for the first time. The industry stalwarts explain what brought them together and how launching a broker during lockdown is going
Both Stuart Reid and Phil Barton returned to into the UK broking space this year with the huge launch of broker Partners&, which immediately went into the Top 100 with £65m GWP.
Both have had high profile careers in the insurance space, with challenges to overcome and successes to celebrate. In past times the pair were rivals – Barton at the helm of Jelf and Reid leading Stuart Alexander, Bluefin and subsequently Arthur J Gallagher.
Barton explains that, despite the previous business rivalry
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