GS Capital Partners' $1.4 billion deal to purchase the USI Holdings Corp. brokerage, while not a shock, reflects the private equity market's interest in the insurance industry and may harbinger more deals before year's end, an analyst said.

Donald Light, senior analyst with Boston-based Celent, said that while the transaction came as no surprise, there were two points worth noting.

Private equity firms are looking at investments in industries that are undergoing change, and the insurance brokerage business is certainly one of those, he observed.

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