Broker M&A remains on record-setting pace: Optis

Insurance agency mergers and acquisitions remain on track to set
an annual record this year with 132 deals reported in the third
quarter, according to Optis Partners.
The 457 deals through the first nine months of 2017 equals the
total for all of 2015, the previous record year, the Chicago-based
boutique investment bank said in a study.
While the pace of transactions slowed in both the most recent
and the previous period from 186 in the first quarter, the broker...