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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....
...It has financed projects including 316 rental homes in Bath and a joint loan with insurance group Generali for 65 homes for sale in Canary Wharf....
...The former US president’s team has spent “countless hours negotiating with one of the largest insurance companies in the world”, the lawyers wrote in a filing, citing a broker they hired, but have concluded...
...Geico and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance declined to comment. Gen Re did not respond to requests for comment....
...Sources tell Eric and Ian there are three leading candidates, including Peter Eastwood, who runs the fast-growing Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance unit, and Charlie Shamieh, chair of Gen Re....
...The attorney-general’s office suggested the $175mn bond, which is underwritten by Knight Specialty Insurance Company, should be deemed ineffective, and Trump given another week to find an alternative backer...
...A couple of months ago, my insurance company decided to raise the price of the yearly insurance premiums on our Brooklyn home by 51 per cent over three years, after more than doubling the estimated cost...
...Bhalla is set to depart as chief executive of American Equity Investment Life when its $4bn sale to Brookfield Reinsurance closes in the coming days. The deal clinched him a $55mn bonus....
...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....
...Over the next 16 years, he spearheaded a string of deals, buying brokerage EF Hutton, investment bank Lehman Brothers, insurance firm Fireman’s Fund and other businesses that turned the charge-card company...
...The flood maps that Fema uses to set premiums for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...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...
...Lloyd’s insurers Tokio Marine Kiln, Chaucer and Liberty Specialty Markets are among those that have pledged to hold the risk for a total of £500mn of insurance coverage written in partnership with these...
...Berkshire is the last great American conglomerate, with hundreds of subsidiaries fused with the backbone of the US economy. Its freight trains run over more than 32,000 miles of track....
...In reality, higher rates have helped property prices, because of the unique characteristics of the American mortgage market....
...American workers do express more enthusiasm about their jobs than Europeans. Yet even in American companies, reported Gallup last year, “only about 30 per cent of employees are truly engaged....
...Many customers are buying weight-loss drugs outside insurance schemes as obesity is not a widely covered condition in the US....
...Blackstone has appointed Philip Sherrill as global head of insurance. He previously worked for Global Atlantic Financial Group as chief strategy officer....
...And despite the threat of tougher enforcement, the policies have never been cheaper, thanks to an increasing number of insurance companies entering the market....
...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....
...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....
...A unit of UnitedHealth, the gigantic American conglomerate, suffered a ransomware attack, preventing the insurance payments. Thankfully, her operation eventually took place....
...Barclays is relying on American consumers to help it achieve that aim and is targeting an $8bn increase in US credit card lending in the next three years....
...to show it is clamping down on credit card companies charging excessive fees....
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