Hints and tips:
...Mark Pring, a partner specialising in insurance issues at the law firm Reed Smith, said there was likely to be a “wave” of insurance claims over assets stranded in Russia in the coming months....
...• Liz Wright has moved to Vanguard as a senior ETF sales specialist based in London. She previously worked for ETF Securities, the London asset manager acquired by WisdomTree....
...• Guggenheim Investments, the $243bn New York-based asset manager, has hired Timothy Wright as head of strategy. He joins from Deutsche Asset management....
...Taking time to create a strategic framework for problem-solving has also paid off for Aon, the insurance and consultancy group....
...Whereas a standalone drugstore profits by serving as many customers as quickly as possible, an insurance company would want pharmacists and other staff to spend more time with patients so they do not end...
...Competing Against Luck’s final chapter reads like an insurance policy against the same thing happening to jobs theory....
...Mr Greco worked at Zurich from 2007-12 as head of life operations and then general insurance....
...Ford’s “smart mobility” trials A “Dynamic Shuttle” and electric bikes are among experiments being carried out in Michigan, reports Robert Wright from its main technology centre in Dearborn....
...John Simonson, a partner at PwC and a former deputy director at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said: “We’ve already seen higher capital requirements generally, and additional buffers for GSIBs...
...Carmakers unveil electric and luxury-vehicle drives Two sharply contrasting parts of the automotive industry drew the biggest attention at the annual Detroit Auto Show, writes Robert Wright in Detroit....
...America sales The US’s two biggest domestic carmakers this week laid out strategies for the rest of this decade that were big on reducing their reliance on their core North American markets, writes Robert Wright...
...● Lisa Jones has been appointed as head of the US for Pioneer Investments, the €185.5bn asset management subsidiary of UniCredit, the Italian insurance group....
...Meggitt’s air shot A friend, atomising clays with her shotgun, remarked: “hitting moving targets is easy when you have the knack”....
...Ed Burkhardt, the MMA’s chief executive, said on Wednesday it had “become apparent” that the obligations of both its US and Canadian subsidiaries now exceeded their assets, including any insurance payouts...
...The special items included an income tax credit, mark-to-market gains on some energy contracts, and insurance payments after a fire, but were offset by restructuring costs....
...The generation involved has suffered disproportionately from poor economic conditions in recent years and faces higher insurance costs and tougher driving test requirements than predecessors....
...However, although there had been a great deal of talk about the threat of a large storm, little had been done to mitigate the potential damage, according to Cynthia McHale, head of insurance at Ceres, the...
...Additional reporting by Robert Wright in New York...
...Clay Maitland, a veteran shipping lawyer who administers the Marshall Islands registry, the world’s third-largest ship registry, points out that some cruise ships – such as Royal Caribbean International’...
...He joined the board of MetLife, an insurance group, in 2008. His resignation from MetLife marks the first significant executive move in the US linked to the weekend allegations....
...Off a dirt track deep in Clay County, Florida, an empty house sits in two acres of scrub, slowly decaying....
...“Functional elegance for the masses, not for the classes,” is how one advertisement described the democratic project of Russel Wright and his wife Mary....
...He says that his companies do not expect even to have to claim on insurance they took out against charterer default....
...As Sir Richard Broadbent prepares to take the chairmanship of the insurance group’s board, the 57-year-old will have to make a decision on his Barclays directorship....
...“More than 70 per cent of Berkshire’s earnings are in insurance and utilities. What’s significant about that? Stability. What’s significant about BNSF earnings?...
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