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...He said the sector needs to “bring to bear” broader forms of insurance capital including from pension funds and sovereign wealth funds through a growing insurance-linked securities market....
...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
...Funabiki also praised UK regulators, which have come under criticism from lawmakers and lobby groups for being slow in approving new insurance securities, as “very knowledgeable and . . . always willing...
...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...Nuctech, the Chinese security equipment supplier raided by EU authorities, has won more than 160 public tenders in Europe over the past decade despite national security warnings about the company’s products...
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...The regulator also wants to make greater use of reinsurance markets, and aims to encourage investors to put more money into EU insurance-linked securities — such as catastrophe bonds, which pay out for certain...
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
...Meanwhile, organisations such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and the IMF have raised warning flags about hard-headed financial investors mixing themselves up in the retirement...
...Second, although national security officials want stricter controls around how companies choose vendors and suppliers, this type of state interference tends to be anathema to the C-suite, who have, after...
...MPs last year blamed regulatory foot-dragging for London losing out on $700mn of insurance-linked securities that went to Singapore....
...Apollo established Financial Credit Investment I (“FCI I”) in 2010 coming out of the GFC as a vehicle to acquire pools of life settlements and other insurance-linked securities from banks and other large...
...The area of private medical insurance that has seen the strongest growth has been in the number of people taking out personal cover, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, a research company...
...He predicted that more would come from areas such as insurance-linked securities — where investors put their capital against insurance risks — leading to a “levelling of pricing”....
...“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....
...The FTSE 250 company, which runs 39 hospitals as well as clinics and medical centres, said it was also benefiting from a strong rebound in corporate private medical insurance as more employers take out policies...
...Monday’s report also called for bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, an executive agency that provides advice to the government, to be given a “broader remit and be less at the mercy of...
...Hong Kong-listed Chinese technology shares fell on Thursday after a US Senate committee approved a national security bill, with medical devices maker WuXi AppTec opening down more than 14 per cent....
...Car owners have been squeezed by a surge in insurance prices since their pandemic lows, as companies try to reflect a surge in claims costs....
...Earlier this week, Knight Insurance Group, one of more than a handful of companies that make up Hankey’s financial empire, put up a $175mn bond for Donald Trump, an amount the former president had to post...
...National General implemented rate increases at 10% in 2022 and an additional 12.8% in 2023....
...America’s home insurance crisis: Rana Foroohar uses her own experience to explain the difficulties of finding affordable home insurance in the US....
...The flood maps that Fema uses to set premiums for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
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