{"id":681870,"date":"2026-07-09T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681870\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:19:29","slug":"uk-insurance-distribution-ma-slowest-since-2017-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681870\/","title":{"rendered":"UK insurance distribution M&#038;A slowest since 2017 in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PE exits and specialty deals rise<\/p>\n<p>Two of June&#8217;s four transactions involved private equity (PE) exits, a disproportionate share given the month&#8217;s low overall volume. Just five PE exits were recorded across all of 2025, a figure MarshBerry expects to be exceeded this year. The global all-sector average PE holding period has reached approximately 6.5 years, in line with the average for direct UK insurance distribution investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PE exits and specialty deals rise Two of June&#8217;s four transactions involved private equity (PE) exits, a disproportionate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,227617,227618,227619,54,55],"class_list":["post-681870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-insurance-distribution-ma","tag-uk-insurance-distribution-ma-h1-2026","tag-uk-insurance-ma-marshberry","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}