HUB International

HUB International is an insurance brokerage headquartered at 150 N. Riverside Plaza in Chicago, operating across the United States and Canada. It places business and personal insurance and runs employee benefits, retirement and private wealth, risk management consulting and wholesale divisions alongside the retail brokerage.

Accounts sit with a local office that can pull on national specialty practices, so a client works with a nearby team while reaching the group's programs, carrier relationships and specialty underwriting. The wholesale arm gives independent brokers access to property and casualty, life and investment products. The firm also acquires brokerages continuously, keeping the acquired local service teams in place.

HUB was formed in 1998 when eleven Canadian brokerages merged, moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago in 2001, and has integrated brokerages every year since. It describes itself as the largest privately held insurance brokerage in the world, with more than 500 offices and over 20,000 professionals.

The pages crawled describe the brokerage in general terms rather than a named real estate practice, and no pricing is published; commission and fee arrangements are set account by account. Ask the local office which habitational and commercial property carriers it can access and who services the account after binding.