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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....
...“Insurance companies probably have a duty to their members and shareholders to resist liability if it’s reasonable to do so,” the barrister said....
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...Not only will generative AI sharpen the competitiveness of US companies, it will boost the overall economy, too....
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...He’s made a shit ton of money for the company.” Buffett’s fascination with the insurance industry dates back more than 70 years....
...If you watch a great chef prepare in the kitchen, you know the meal is going to be good....
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...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....
...Read up on those transactions in the piece, as well as one relatively opaque deal that hasn’t gotten any media attention at all: an $82bn dividend Berkshire’s biggest insurance unit paid the parent company...
...Blackstone has appointed Philip Sherrill as global head of insurance. He previously worked for Global Atlantic Financial Group as chief strategy officer....
...The latest complaint alleges that the trust Barotz set up was “a sham entity” and that, having collected on her death, the defendants . . . ... went to great lengths to move those proceeds through a complex...
...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...Meanwhile, former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was interested in owning the Chinese-owned company. “It’s a great business,” he said in an interview with the CNBC television channel....
...And look, American stocks have been great for 10 years. They’re not gonna be as great in relative terms for the next 10 years. The chances of that happening are really low....
...Unhedged: Some of your competitors, rather than working on behalf of insurance companies, own insurance companies, or have insurance subsidiaries. I wonder why Blackstone hasn’t done that....
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