Independent Insurance Brokers Gather for North American Conference: Assurex Global Hosts 2012 Meeting of Premier US & Canadian Brokers

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) March 19, 2012

The principals of nearly 50 premier independent insurance brokers—Assurex Global’s North American Partners—will gather at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on March 20-22 for the 2012 Assurex Global North American Regional Partners’ Conference. International risk management, insurance, and employee benefits experts from Assurex Global Partner firms across the United States and Canada will be in attendance, along with Partners from around the globe. Assurex Global’s CEO, Jim Hackbarth, will host the conference with Chairman Stefan Nill of Germany’s Leue & Nill and Robert Cawley, CEO of Baltimore-based RCM&D and Chairman of the Assurex Global North American Region.

Assurex Global is the world’s premier network of independent insurance, risk management, and benefits brokers. Assurex Global invites only the strongest independent brokers in North America and around the globe to become Partners/shareholders. Assurex Global’s Partners have a collective commitment to independent ownership at a time when insurance agencies increasingly succumb to economic pressure to sell or merge their firms. Determined to maintain independence, Assurex Global’s North American Partners will spend two days in Nashville sharing ideas and developing strategies to help increase revenues and recruit and retain key talent.

“Despite record unemployment, well-paying career-track positions go unfilled as Assurex Global Partners and other industry professionals struggle to engage top-notch employees—
particularly Millennials under age 30—to fill professional positions,” said Hackbarth.

To help understand insurance professionals’ career choices, while shoring up the industry’s talent gap, Assurex Global recently conducted a survey of 4,986 insurance professionals employed by independent Partner firms throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Assurex Global Generational Workplace Audit is the first comprehensive, quantitative study of generations in the insurance industry.

The survey examines generational differences in the workplace among Millennials (ages 29 and younger), Gen-Xers (ages 30–51), and Boomers (ages 52-69). It also provides employers—Assurex Global Partners and others—with a strategic roadmap for the recruitment and retention of the next generation of business leaders and owners.

“One lesson gleaned from our study is that Millennials and Gen-Xers have a genuine interest in establishing careers that may one day lead to business ownership. Assurex Global Partners understand the lure of independence. The Assurex Global Partner network includes many employee-owned brokerages, and our Partners overall are committed to passing ownership of their firms from one generation of employees and managers to the next. We encourage entrepreneurial job candidates to do their homework and discover exactly what it takes to establish rewarding careers as risk management, insurance, employee benefits, actuarial, and underwriting professionals,” said Hackbarth.

About Assurex Global
$28 billion in annual premium volume and more than 500 Partner offices, Columbus, Ohio-based Assurex Global is the world’s largest privately held commercial insurance brokerage group. An international insurance powerhouse, Assurex Global combines the local expertise and global reach of international brokers on six continents. For additional information, visit http://www.assurexglobal.com.

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