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This came up in a recent meeting I attended, not as a headline statement, but in the way decisions were being framed.
The hard market isn’t over, it’s just becoming selective.
- Capacity is still there, but it’s no longer evenly distributed.
- Risk appetite feels sharper. Questions are more pointed.
- And pricing is increasingly driven by quality, not momentum.
For well run portfolios, this creates real opportunity.
For others, it quietly exposes gaps that were easier to mask a few years ago.
What’s shifting fastest isn’t the market cycle itself, it’s the discipline behind underwriting decisions. Data, broker insight, and judgement are doing more of the heavy lifting again.
Interested to hear how others are seeing this play out across the UK market.
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