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...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...Do you really think that Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, actually wanted to be there for his own benefit? Lord no....
...In addition to taking on life insurance premiums through reinsurance agreements with primary insurers, it plans to offer outsourced investment management to insurers looking for expertise in private assets...
...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
...Often, travel insurance is included either as an extra benefit or service through your bank or credit card company as part of a package of services for which you pay a monthly or annual fee....
...Insurance group Zurich’s sale of a $20bn life insurance book to Viridium has collapsed, with the private equity-backed German consolidator citing “considerations relating to [its] current ownership structure...
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...Governments need credible commitments and delivery plans for net zero....
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...The bank did continue to reap some benefit from the unexpectedly resilient US economy....
...Direct Line shareholders should be wary given Ageas’s poor performance in recent years thanks to its overexposure to unfashionable guaranteed life contracts....
...For Dai-ichi Life, acquisition of Benefit One would come as it explores other revenue channels to counter a shrinking insurance market at home....
...Importantly, FCI I never participated in the origination of any life insurance policy....
...This could be covered with a life insurance policy for this period only, since a policy for a fixed term is generally cheaper than a whole-of-life policy....
...Employers are not obliged to pay into a pension plan chosen by their workers....
...JAB Holding will announce today that it has hired Anant Bhalla, a US-based insurance veteran, to become its chief investment officer and a senior partner to build its new insurance platform....
...Well, life insurers should be selling bonds trading at the lowest dollar value to get the most benefit from their IMR allowances....
...The smartest thing that Jeremy Hunt did in his last Budget, politically speaking, was to implement Labour’s plans to reform the “non-dom” tax regime....
...The group is split into an active asset management arm, a life insurance and pensions business and a financial advice business. M&G’s share price rose by about 2 per cent in morning trading....
...According to research from Canada Life, an insurance and retirement services company, more than half of UK adults do not have a will, and 13 per cent say they have no plans to write one....
...The UK’s £1.4tn “defined benefit” pensions industry has been switching to corporate debt for its higher yields and to prepare the schemes for potential sales to insurers, analysts said....
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