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...any life insurance policy....
...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 —...
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
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...Reinsurers, including Lloyd’s companies, are expected to bear the brunt....
...The point of the temporary accounting-rule change, from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, was to shield life insurers’ capital from losses caused by rising interest rates....
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...Its share price and that of bigger rival L&G have snaked sideways for more than a year. Just trades at a 60 per cent discount to book value. Its life insurance peers are closer to parity....
...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
...America is, after all, about the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness....
...The same extensive survey of corporate America also showed that female leaders, particularly women of colour, left companies at a much higher rate than white men....
...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....
...A body representing global insurance regulators has called for “enhanced supervision” of private capital-owned life insurers, citing potential “conflicts of interest” and “increased risk-taking”....
...Long-dated insurance premiums are becoming the funding of choice. The shift is sufficiently seismic that once overlooked credit firms are now the subject of bidding wars....
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...“What we have here is the plot of the movie Footloose [about a ban on dancing in a small town] in real life in Seattle,” he says....
...for work and family life....
...AXA Millésimes, the insurance company’s wine division, is far lower-key than Bernard Arnault’s vast LVMH empire, but has its own investment in Outpost on Howell Mountain, east of the valley....
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