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Dividends outstrip cash flows at Blackstone’s flagship property fund

...Blackstone’s flagship property fund failed to generate enough cash to cover its dividend last year, putting strain on a vehicle the private capital group views as a beachhead in the retail investor marketplace...

April 3, 2024

Inside BusinessDavid Keohane

Why Nissan needs more than a gamble on solid-state batteries

...He was responding to claims made recently by the founder and chief executive of CATL, the Chinese company that dominates the electric vehicle battery industry, that the much-hyped solid-state batteries did...

April 24, 2024

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Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

Climate change

EU regulator urges action on climate threat to insurance

...“All actors need to move,” she told the Financial Times....

April 22, 2024

Electric vehicles

IEA bullish on electric vehicle sales in 2024

...China dominates manufacturing, making more than half of all electric or plug-in hybrid cars, compared with just 10 per cent of traditional engine-driven vehicles....

April 23, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The painful rise in home insurance costs

...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....

April 1, 2024

Letter

Letter: A plan to combat cost of climate disaster insurance

...property....

March 7, 2024

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US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Chinese business & finance

Chinese state-owned bank seeks liquidation of property developer Shimao

...The involvement of a prominent state-owned bank signals a new level of impatience among creditors as a cash crunch for property developers continues to worsen....

April 8, 2024

UK insurance industry

UK car insurance prices fall for first time in two years

...UK car insurance prices fell at the start of 2024 in the first quarter-on-quarter drop in more than two years, signalling some relief for households after costs hit an all-time high....

April 18, 2024

News in-depthChina Vanke Co Ltd

State-linked Vanke is latest Chinese developer hit by confidence crisis

...It is 28 per cent owned by the Shenzhen Metro, occupying a middle ground between a private and state-owned company....

March 15, 2024

Tesla Inc

Tesla shares rise on plans to accelerate launch of ‘more affordable’ models

...Musk is also seeking to change the company’s state of incorporation to Texas, partly in protest at a Delaware court decision to void a $56bn pay package he was awarded in 2018....

April 24, 2024

Evergrande Real Estate Group

China detains executive of Evergrande’s electric vehicle unit

...China has detained an executive of Evergrande’s vehicle unit, threatening to further complicate the outlook for the restructuring of the world’s most indebted property group....

January 8, 2024

Property sector

Record number of cash offers show New York property is only for the rich

...But in New York, some of the best properties coming to market are now sitting for months....

March 5, 2024

Vietnam

Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death over $12bn fraud

...Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City for embezzling more than $12bn in the country’s largest financial fraud, state media reported....

April 12, 2024

Nissan Motor Co Ltd

Nissan looks for partnerships to cut electric vehicle costs

...The carmaker will also aim to launch an EV powered by emerging solid-state-battery technology in fiscal 2028....

March 25, 2024

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UK car insurance prices fall for first time in 2 years

...UK car insurance prices fell at the start of the year in the first quarter-on-quarter drop in more than two years, signalling some relief for households after costs hit an all-time high last year....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Global Pharma and Biotech Summit

Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world

Insurance

Scrapping the spreadsheet: start-ups take aim at an old insurance addiction

...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....

April 7, 2024

UK insurance industry

Admiral signals end of car insurance price surge

...Car insurance prices have soared in recent years, reaching an all-time high last year according to one industry index, as insurers tried to reprice their policies to absorb spiralling inflation in the cost...

March 7, 2024

Moral Money

Soaring insurance costs threaten hurricane-prone US states Premium

...Insurance isn’t the flashiest business sector. We’d all rather talk about electric vehicles or hydrogen technology....

October 9, 2023

Electric vehicles

Surging UK premiums for electric vehicle insurance pose risk to widespread adoption

...These factors have added extra challenges for insurers in a market where the wider inflationary pressures have driven the price of motor insurance for all vehicles to an all-time high....

October 25, 2023

News in-depthElectric vehicles

Was Toyota’s bet on hybrid cars right all along?

...“Toyota from the very beginning has said, ‘this is all quite complicated — we need to take our time and pursue multiple pathways’.”...

February 26, 2024

Automobiles

European ports turned into ‘car parks’ as vehicle imports pile up

...“All major car ports” were struggling with congestion, the port added, without specifying the origin of the vehicles....

April 9, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The electric vehicle revolution is running out of steam

...Thousands of imported vehicles, many of them electric cars made in China, are clogging up European ports....

April 10, 2024

Legal & General Group PLC

Legal & General’s new chief promises ‘simpler investment case’

...and workplace insurance products such as pensions....

March 6, 2024

Special ReportFuture of Water

US housing market belatedly wakes up to flood risk

...In addition, many US states — including those most prone to flooding, such as Florida — do not require sellers to disclose a property’s flood risk to buyers....

March 22, 2024

Insurance

Lloyd’s of London chief calls for quick insurance payouts on Baltimore bridge

...Reinsurers, including Lloyd’s companies, are expected to bear the brunt....

March 28, 2024

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