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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rnam ✭☼  😊 😞
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Subject: Inflation Winner AJ Gallagher
Date: 06/09/23 2:42 PM
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Automakers, airlines and hotels, for instance, have all mastered the inflation game, finding little resistance from customers for rapid-fire price hikes that bolstered their profit margins.

But few have done quite as well as the insurance broker industry.
Gallagher, for instance, has quietly grown into a $44 billion company. 'We're one of the world's best kept secrets,' Gallagher Jr. said in a Bloomberg Radio interview over the winter. And the stocks of the firm's larger rivals, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. and Aon Plc., are up 50% and 48%, respectively, since the start of 2021. Unlike the insurers themselves, the brokers carry none of the underwriting risks associated with higher costs.

bloomberg.com - Inflation s big stock winner insurance broker arthur j gallagher outperforms
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