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...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
..., the Berkshire vice-chair who runs its valuable insurance operations....
...route for companies to become public....
...Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant Capital has signed its biggest deal, buying a $100bn book of US life insurance business....
...Ex-Barclays chief Bob Diamond’s private equity group has signed its biggest ever deal, buying a $100bn book of US life insurance business....
...But they also have a degree of insurance unavailable to other investors if the company falls short of expectations — as, in the case of Square, looks likely....
...Possible investors include hedge funds, mutual fund BlackRock and private-equity firms General Atlantic and Technology Crossover Ventures, the people said.” (WSJ) (FT Alphaville — This is nuts....
...Those successes have emboldened regulators on both sides of the Atlantic....
...and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority stake in Indonesia’s Panin Life for about $200 million, sources said. http://reut.rs/UqGs3l China snubs Norway in...
...They derived a competitive edge from their reputation for integrity and mutual trust....
...Yet, with the battle for alpha, (outperformance through skill-based investing) a zero sum game, the extra gains of hedge funds must be matched by resulting losses of pension funds, insurance funds, mutual...
...JPMorgan has agreed to give Washington Mutual, parent of Washington Mutual Bank, $4bn to resolve a dispute that arose after JPMorgan bought the bank out of receivership from the Federal Deposit Insurance...
...It is no accident that all investment banks were once structured as partnerships, and mutuals once dominated insurance....
...After all, it was not the traditional insurance business that sunk AIG, but its derivatives offshoot brought down what had been a decent insurance company....
...At the height of the financial crisis, governments on both sides of the Atlantic allowed a whole series of mega-mergers as a solution to the problem....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...In 2004, Fortune named him a member of its eight-person ‘Mutual Fund Dream Team’....
...Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc....
...In Stoneridge Investment Partners v Scientific Atlanta , the court is considering whether investors can recover from firms – including accountants, lawyers and bankers – that help a public company commit...
...If there was distrust, it was mutual, and Ashcroft sought and found greener business pastures across the Atlantic....
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