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Sam Berman

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ATTRACTING YOUTH

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By Sam Berman
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The Portal Insurance team in front of the USS Alabama at Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama. Tech allows the people at this Alabama agency to spend more time with customers By Dennis H. Pillsbury Photography by Arturo Paulino “It sounds simple. You just need to hire great people and give them the tools they need to be successful,” says Bradley Flowers, president of Portal Insurance, an independent agency based in Mobile, Alabama.
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Are You Busy … Or Are You Actually Getting Better?

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By Sam Berman
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Recognizing when activity creates the illusion of progress [A]ctivity without alignment does not lead to consistent results. In fact, it often leads to burnout. By Roger Sitkins By the middle of the year, most agency leaders start to feel it. January felt different: There was energy; there were goals. You had conversations with your team about doing things better this year—about being more intentional, more disciplined, more focused.
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ADJUSTING TO A SOFTENING MARKET CYCLE

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By Sam Berman
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The insurance brokerage sector looks to balance economic uncertainty against M&A deal volume and valuations [We are] seeing buyers increasingly differentiating between firms with sustainable, producer-led organic growth and those whose recent performance was primarily market-driven. By James Graham, CVA The insurance brokerage merger and acquisition (M&A) market remains active in 2026, but the dynamics underpinning dealmaking have shifted meaningfully over the past 12 to 18 months.
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