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...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
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...Funabiki also praised UK regulators, which have come under criticism from lawmakers and lobby groups for being slow in approving new insurance securities, as “very knowledgeable and . . . always willing...
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...The regulator also wants to make greater use of reinsurance markets, and aims to encourage investors to put more money into EU insurance-linked securities — such as catastrophe bonds, which pay out for certain...
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...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 —...
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...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
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...MPs last year blamed regulatory foot-dragging for London losing out on $700mn of insurance-linked securities that went to Singapore....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...He predicted that more would come from areas such as insurance-linked securities — where investors put their capital against insurance risks — leading to a “levelling of pricing”....
...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....
...That job security is starting to fade as deals disappear, Bloomberg reveals....
...Last month, Wegovy received FDA approval to help reduce heart attack and stroke risk in patients with cardiovascular disease, enabling it to be covered by insurance for the more than 50mn Americans on Medicare...
...In full-year results on Wednesday, the life insurance and asset management group reported a 45 per cent rise in new business profit — a measure of expected earnings from newly sold products — to $3.1bn,...
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