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Private Ownership, Assurex Provide Notable Advantages

For its attention to risk consulting and its ability to translate that into a profitable and growing enterprise, Parker, Smith & Feek is our 2011 winner of the Commercial Agency Awards for Excellence.

By Mark E. Ruquet | Updated on September 29, 2011

As a privately held brokerage with 185 employees, Parker Smith & Feek (PS&F) does not have the quarterly profit pressures faced by its publicly traded competitors—giving it, says Gregory Collins, president and CEO of the firm, flexibility and the ability to think in the long-term interests of its clients.

For example, even though the economy “has given us a real challenge,” Collins says, PS&F has been “unwilling to reduce our staff of talented, experienced professionals who generate the very advice and counsel we see as our number-one client-valued advantage.”

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