Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...The real estate arm of the French insurance company has agreed to purchase Bry-sur-Marne Studios, east of Paris, which produced director Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, one of the Hunger Games...
...Axa’s health premiums fell 7 per cent in 2023, as two contracts with large corporate clients in France were not renewed, the company said....
...them cyber insurance and climate advice....
...“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 BBC has agreed to sell the Elstree studio complex that is home to soap opera EastEnders to French insurance company Axa, providing a financial boost of up to £70mn for the cash-strapped broadcaster....
...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 —...
...Rising insurance prices for businesses and consumers helped France’s Axa to lift its revenues and profits in the first half, edging above consensus estimates for the period....
...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
...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....
...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...
...Most of it is expected to flow through to the ship’s reinsurers, a large group including Axa XL, a division of the French insurer. Axa said any impact would be “non-material” at group level....
...Axa pivoted in 2020 to focus more on healthcare insurance....
...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....
...Axa’s deputy chief executive, Frédéric de Courtois, said a public-private partnership on cyber is a “must-have”, given it is generally only the biggest companies, which have also invested in prevention,...
...But Kuvare has established itself as a canny specialist in the bespoke assets that life insurers invest in. Kuvare joins a growing trend....
...Businesses need to examine their workplace culture, to ensure that their promotion procedures are truly equitable and merit-based....
...increase this year, according to industry forecasts, even as politicians and consumer groups voice concern about the impact of rising costs on the millions of households reliant on a car for work and family life...
...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...
...The biggest insurers, including Bupa and Axa, use their buying power to secure a good price for their customers from doctors and private hospitals....
...For Dai-ichi Life, acquisition of Benefit One would come as it explores other revenue channels to counter a shrinking insurance market at home....
...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”....
...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....
International Edition