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Small broker reels in a big catch: a team of key brokers have jumped ship to DeWitt Stern in the...

By Yahn, Steve
Publication: Risk & Insurance
Date: Wednesday, June 1 2005

New York-based DeWitt Stem Group Inc. dramatically ramped up the ongoing expansion of its highly regarded entertainment brokerage practice in late April by hiring broker LeConte Moore and four other members of Marsh & McLennan Cos.' entertainment and media group that Moore headed for 17 years.

DeWitt Stern saw the chance to bring on board one of the top major-account brokers in the entertainment field, for both corporate clients and also the accounts of major cultural institutions and organizations. "We are delighted that LeConte and the four other excellent people hav

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