Aviva’s Ryan Birbeck on the recruitment arms race in broking

Ryan Birbeck

View from the top: Ryan Birbeck, regional brokers director for UK&I GI at Aviva, addresses the fears brokers have about staff retention and lack of experienced staff.

Most brokers are optimistic about what the future holds: both for their own businesses and for their clients’ too, according to Aviva’s latest Broker Barometer research.

However, the bad news is they

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