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...Still, the Travelers executive did admit to some anecdotal evidence of bigger hail....
...Craig Coben is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America and now a managing director at Seda Experts....
...banking (FT) Bank of America profits beat forecasts despite drag from low-yielding bonds (FT) Activist fund targets Japan rail company with $12bn stake in Tokyo Disneyland owner (FT) News Corp break-up...
...Edward Luce: Nothing better captures the fragility of America’s democracy than the impunity of its Supreme Court....
...Zeitz remains co-chair of the museum’s board with David Green, chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, developer of the surrounding harbour district; there is also a “global council” of art-world luminaries...
...“The fact of the matter is [that] this is far broader than just insurance brokerage,” Williams said, although he adds that insurance is likely to remain the company’s largest business line....
...Life is even tougher for insurance companies....
...for more than a third of the FTSE company’s revenues for the first half of 2020....
...Investors include Nippon Life Insurance, technology company NEC and Japan Women’s University....
...US executives are already complaining of “frivolous” suits hurting the battered economy; Alan Schnitzer, chief executive of Travelers insurance, said last month that America was already facing “the highest...
...Overall, we assume that in developed markets, namely North America and Western Europe, volumes decline by 20% y/y in 2020....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...millions across North America and western Europe....
...As the AI training market starts to explode, western groups using AI are looking to work with more ethical outsourcing companies, with a social impact model....
...The stability of longer tenancies and rent control helps to attract institutional investors like us. Our pension fund and insurance clients like steady and “controlled” incomes....
...The smoke is sure to result in many insurance claims for evacuation, business interruption, and contents damage.” The share prices of insurance companies fell on Monday....
...In the law school equivalent of a virtual sports league, FantasySCOTUS (short for the Supreme Court of the United States) invites law geeks to predict the outcome of some of America’s most important legal...
...Two of the biggest US insurance companies have racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from recent storms as extreme weather across the country continues its costly run....
...The lawsuit, originally filed in 2013, is one of the biggest legal challenges the company has faced over the years....
...That was the reaction of Tim Höttges, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, to news that Vodafone had agreed on Wednesday to acquire a series of continental assets from John Malone’s Liberty Global....
...Insurance? You get the picture. But just because it’s a mainstay of the modern investing scene, does not mean all is well inside the company....
...With the House of Representatives approving the finalised bill on Tuesday, Lloyd’s of London and companies in Bermuda and continental Europe have emerged as big potential losers from a new tax on cross-border...
...(Bloomberg) US oil driller Continental Resources has hired Rory Sabino, formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Chubb, the US’s largest property & casualty insurance business by market capitalisation, already has a big office in Paris. The company said it would continue to have a big presence in London....
...investors such as pension funds and insurance companies increasingly seeing the sector “as a part of their bread and butter”....
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