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...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
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...Profits at its insurance businesses — which includes Geico — were nearly wiped out, falling to just $47mn from $764mn a year earlier....
...MoneyLion has added Even’s insurance and personal loan services into its banking app and hopes the company’s software offering will also bring new customers to its own products....
...Companies that sell software to insurance groups have also fared better....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...two weeks ago announced a merger with its insurance affiliate, Athene....
...The $760bn-in-assets conglomerate is skewed towards financial companies — it owns large insurance companies, such as Geico, outright and stakes in many of America’s largest banks — and industrials....
...There has been a huge corporate borrowing binge over the past decade, which has left many companies vulnerable even to a garden-variety recession....
...They should also sell exposure to companies that will find it hard to rebound fully in the post-crisis world, and buy beneficiaries of what are likely to be durable themes: opting more for self insurance...
...Here’s Peel Hunt on RSA Insurance: We view the recent sell off in the share price as having been overdone....
...Its iptiQ unit helps other companies to develop insurance products....
...taken advantage of....
...For instance, the genius of Berkshire Hathaway is that, by being able to access billions of dollars in insurance float from Geico and Wesco, Buffett was able to access cash with effectively no cost....
...You see it as you emerge from Rotterdam Centraal station, redesigned and re-opened in 2014, with its soaring V-shaped roof....
...Finally, to take advantage within equity markets we look for companies that are relatively lowly levered compared to history but who have high price volatility i.e. the opposite of the trends described above...
...He also likes Balistreri v Pacifica Police Dept, a 1990 appeals court decision stemming from a domestic violence case, which he has mentioned 312 times....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...Critics say Uber is taking advantage of a low-paid workforce. Uber said it was “pleased” with the court’s decision....
...The incredible demand to buy into a Chinese company that does not yet have any clear products is just one sign that China's venture capital market is overheating (FT) Xerox v activist investors Xerox is...
...But the self-employed also have a big tax advantage, averaging £1,240 a person a year, because of much lower rates of national insurance contributions....
...Equivalence does offer certain advantages, in that it does not require both sides to mirror each other’s rules and legislation....
...While it’s true rental companies can bring some economies of scale to the market — taking advantage of location, maintenance, insurance, cleaning and vehicle financing synergies — what they gain in those...
...“The big advantage is they can’t get the money until they are 55,” he says....
...The existing rules in Furniss v Dawson and other such cases are used to deny the tax advantage. They have been around for many years so there is no real change there....
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