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...The UL network traces its roots to a late 19th century effort to help insurance companies save money by testing electrical products for fire risk....
...“One of my loan officers has a poultry farm. We understand our economy. I make a lot of loans on my phone, just like I’m talking to you.”...
...“It's key to overhaul the social insurance system,” Mr Suga told Nikkei in the same interview. “The foundation of a nation is self-aid, mutual aid and public aid....
...Bureau Federation, the industry lobbying group....
...Fitch notes the five groups with the biggest homeowners insurance exposures, are: State Farm Group, Heritage Insurance Group (including Hawaii focused Zephyr Insurance Company), USAA Group and Allstate...
...Closer to home, the AMP group, which spent much of its 168-year history as a mutual, has been through a challenging year, reporting a 2016 net loss of A$344m after losses in its life insurance arm....
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...Searches produce pictures of a bikini-clad lady of that name, who appears unrelated to the private equity company or the Greek tragic heroine....
...Meanwhile, companies on the financial and healthcare indices fell, as US bond yields dropped in response to the latest non-farm payroll figures....
...“There is still a lot of growth to come and we will take some of that growth.” The Co-op will be relieved after aborting an attempt to sell its insurance arm last year because of low offers....
...(WSJ) “IMS Health Inc has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co Inc to lead a proposed initial public offering that could value the private equity-owned healthcare information company at close to $10 billion, according...
...The American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union, two broad lobbies, both support the sugar programme. The sugar industry is “effective at working with other commodity groups....
...The crucial non-farm payrolls report will be released on time on Friday as a series of numbers released on Thursday pointed to a stable but sluggish labour market....
...The Lost Bank – The Story of Washington Mutual – The Biggest Bank Failure in American History; By Kirsten Grind; Simon and Schuster $27/ £9.99 The demise of Washington Mutual bank in September 2008 resounded...
...It is remarkable that a nuclear-armed country of 1.2bn people is afraid of conquest by the big box store and a business strategy directed from Bentonville, Arkansas....
...The fees paid to the adviser typically make up the largest portion of investors’ total expenses. However, in some cases the adviser will farm out some or all of its work to subadvisers....
...During his time as governor of Arkansas, former US president Bill Clinton used the bank as a model to set up similar community banks there....
...So do Baring Asset Management, owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance of the US; ContiTech Beattie, a maker of hoses and couplings for the oil and gas industry owned by Germany’s Continental; Sandvik...
...The US Census Bureau estimates that less than 2 per cent of the Benton county population is black – compared with a national average of 12 per cent, and 15 per cent for Arkansas as a whole....
...He produced more than 40 major civil and criminal matters, and led the Bureau through the beginning of the mutual fund industry investigations....
...The FSA has considered requiring mutual funds and insurance companies to disclose how they voted at shareholder meetings....
...seasonality of farm work....
...Bob Stallman, a rice-grower from Texas and president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents many subsidy recipients, says: “Does someone want to guarantee me from now on as a farmer that...
...His plan is to shift traditional mutual fund products into the higher-margin end, by launching more in the form of structured products or with “wrappers” that include insurance or capital guarantees....
...Now that he is governor, Spitzer – who made his name by launching investigations into the big Wall Street banks, mutual funds and insurance companies – must adjust to a new neighbourhood....
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