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...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
...The costs of core insurance products, such as home and motor insurance, have come under increased scrutiny amid a cost-of-living squeeze on UK households....
..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....
...Yet most of our homes, with their framed photos of our children and acceptably modern art prints, are the poorer for it, shorn of the strange obsessions and fanatical collections they once had....
...Rising premiums have lifted the fortunes of insurance brokers, who take home a proportion of the premium as commission....
...and workplace insurance products such as pensions....
...But public car insurance would be even harder to design than flood-zone home insurance: how would any government limit the number it covered?...
...Including mortgage payments, mortgage insurance and property taxes, he pays $3,500 per month more today than what he spent on rent at the family’s last home....
...The latter two are considered “core services”, because rent costs can be sticky and Americans don’t necessarily pay increases in owners’ equivalent rent in real time....
...Its insurance customers carried lower costs of capital than banks, making them a good home for many loans, said Gray....
...obtaining deposit insurance....
...The pledge comes three years after the insurance market apologised for its role in the trade, which included extending crucial insurance to voyages and even insuring slaves as cargo....
...Also in the group is Manuel Sánchez Rodriguez, a former top executive at Spanish bank BBVA and a board member, since 2018, of the US government-backed mortgage insurance company Fannie Mae....
...However, it is seeking a new sponsor to cover annual maintenance costs of €200,000 after a deal collapsed last year with a company behind caiz, a sharia-compliant cryptocurrency....
...There are scandalous tales of wealthy Americans buying stately homes and flogging off the interiors — such as when developer George Ferdinando sold off the dining room of Basildon Park to be re-erected in...
...Suarez worked to draw crypto conferences to the city, seeing the industry as an opening to move the city to a more modern and digital economy....
...A significant factor has been a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance, or insurance for insurance companies....
...into bank parent companies....
...In response, the consultancy expects home insurance prices to rise by 36 per cent over the two-year period....
...Big private equity-cum-asset managers buy insurance companies (see also: Apollo/Athene, Brookfield/American Equity) not to cross-sell, but to gain a source of stable capital....
...Visitors to Music of the Mind, a new exhibition just opened at Tate Modern, are left in no doubt as to its subject....
...Which isn’t bad for a business founder who overlooked so much of modern business thinking....
...(Ed: Or a biscuit — this is as good a time as any to acknowledge that we’ve naively allowed an American to write this piece.)...
...Some houses like theirs are rented out for up to £15,000 a week by US film production companies for crew and actors....
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