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Opinion: Will 2026 see swathe of IPOs as the consolidation of consolidators well runs dry?

By 2025-12-17T07:00:00

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UK general insurance has broker consolidators aplenty – but what does the next stage of their growth journeys look like? Gossip in the sector’s rumour mill has a suggestion…

Many UKGI commentators have told me that broker consolidators will need to take stock in 2026 as their impressive scale upon absorbing other large national businesses has now potentially made them unwieldly for private equity (PE) backing – as well as the fact that suitable acquisition targets in the UK mid-market or national playing field are now few and far between, causing international opportunities to gain more lustre.

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