Commercial underwriters are less optimistic about their future than they were 10 years ago.

HCap Search, a Kansas City, Mo.-based consulting firm, released its latest P&C Underwriter Survey of 500 primary underwriters surveyed by phone, a follow-up of its survey a decade ago.

In 2003, 72 percent of underwriters said their talent was in great to very great demand. Ten years later only 58 percent said the same–while 42 percent say demand is average, which is an increase of 22 percent from the prior survey.

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