Wells Fargo & Co. is weighing a sale of its insurance brokerage business, which could fetch about $2 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
Bank-holding companies reported $6.22 billion in insurance-brokerage fee income for 2013, up slightly from $6.2 billion in 2012 as increases by most bank-holding companies were offset by declines at some of the larger ones.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the insurance broker expanding beyond the U.S. through acquisitions, sold about $821.8 million of shares in an equity offering to help fund its latest deal.
Hub International Ltd will be sold to funds managed by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC in a deal that values the insurance brokerage at about $4.4 billion, Hub said on Monday.