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...If required, an international fund — maintained by seaborne oil importers — can also be called upon to make a contribution of up to about $1bn....
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...Grosvenor said funds for the lending business would come from “organic growth” and “strategic sales around the periphery of the [London] estate”....
...“The BMA would not approve any transaction that the [insurance company’s home] regulator does not support,” said the BMA....
...of any life insurance policy....
...funds of millions of future pensioners....
...“All EU regulators are really down on PE fund owners right now,” said one insurance executive....
...“Any suggestion that this regulatory approach should be changed lacks substantiation and could harm fund investors,” said the Investment Company Institute, which represents fund managers....
...Rather than the federal government dipping into its funds, Neal said, it would be “far better for the insurers to stand up and say hey, let’s actually begin to deal with all of this”....
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...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...The finance chief of Italy’s biggest insurer has expressed concerns about potentially conflicting interests when life insurance companies are owned by private equity funds, as anxiety grows about the consequences...
...The Association of British Insurers’ Investment Delivery Forum, set up to facilitate the promised investments, on Monday said new public-private partnerships that use taxpayer funds would reduce risks....
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...Rossi, who became chief executive in late 2022, highlighted the group’s investment performance across its funds and the contribution from the life insurance business as the reasons behind the company’s recent...
...LIU had intended to use the funds to invest in Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market....
...Global financial supervisors are increasingly focusing on the risks arising from the shadow banking sector, which includes pension funds, family offices, trading houses and insurance firms....
...Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed earlier on Wednesday that the Conservatives would fund the NIC abolition by “cutting state pensions or cuts to the NHS”, an argument that Labour is expected to use...
...“Population ageing and labour market mismatches are further expected to exert pressure on fiscal positions,” the fund said....
...The private capital groups have built up substantial investments or tie-ups in the life insurance sector....
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