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...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
...Shinichiro Funabiki, chief executive of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, told the Financial Times the company had decided to focus its investment plans on the UK because of London’s primacy in analysing complex...
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...The company agreed last month to acquire Kuvare Asset Management for $750mn, extending its reach into the life insurance sector, a market coveted by many private investment groups....
...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...It is the second big transaction by a private capital-backed firm to take on long-term life insurance business that has failed in recent months....
...The steep rise in the cost of home insurance in the US and elsewhere can be traced, in part, to a move two years ago by P&C reinsurers to increase the price of cover against natural catastrophes and toughen...
...Importantly, FCI I never participated in the origination of any life insurance policy....
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...Regulatory scrutiny of the special risks presented by private equity ownership of life insurance companies has climbed, after Italy’s Eurovita — another life insurer majority owned through Cinven funds —...
...But a less-followed risk is adding to unease at companies offering life and health insurance: scientists’ warnings, and research findings, that a warming climate is causing an increasing number of excess...
...In addition to taking on life insurance premiums through reinsurance agreements with primary insurers, it plans to offer outsourced investment management to insurers looking for expertise in private assets...
...In full-year results on Wednesday, the life insurance and asset management group reported a 45 per cent rise in new business profit — a measure of expected earnings from newly sold products — to $3.1bn,...
...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...For Dai-ichi Life, acquisition of Benefit One would come as it explores other revenue channels to counter a shrinking insurance market at home....
...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
...By 2017, she had risen to the company’s board of directors, and in 2019 she joined Hybe as chief branding officer....
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...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....
...The Belgian company reinforced the idea that this is a cut-price, opportunistic bid, with a second cash-and-shares proposal of about 239p per share....
...But Kuvare has established itself as a canny specialist in the bespoke assets that life insurers invest in. Kuvare joins a growing trend....
...It works not because of superior algorithms or supply chains but because companies can mobilise millions of workers on low pay and long hours....
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