For many, life is busy right now. The world is opening back up, people are trying to set some form of normality into their lives; be it back to the old and familiar, or a new way of living and working.
A lot of firms are reflecting and asking themselves “Do we go back to doing things as we’ve always done them or, do we use this opportunity to adopt some new ways and get up to speed with things we’ve always wanted to do, but have never quite been able to or got right yet?” Okay, so maybe it’s not a direct quote, but you get the gist.
These are conversations we have been having regularly with our clients, and conversations of late have focused around the firm’s advice piece, and specifically how we can help firms to get their capacity for loss assessment correct.
Read more in our Nucleus article here.
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