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Aon chief calls for better models for ‘stressed’ property insurance market
...The chief executive of Aon, one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, has called for better modelling of climate risks, saying conditions in the property insurance market were “stressed” after a surge...
April 7, 2024
Lloyd's of London Ltd
Lloyd’s of London attracts biggest ‘Names’ syndicate since 1990s
...Names were the historical basis of the Lloyd’s market, but also at the centre of one of its biggest controversies....
March 28, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Apollo Global Management LLC
Apollo sells stake in asset-backed lending unit to insurer MassMutual
...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
April 24, 2024
UK insurance industry
MS Amlin sets growth plan after underwriting turnaround
...This part of the insurance industry has been hit by four consecutive years of outsized losses from extreme weather....
March 12, 2024
Lemonade Inc
Lemonade chief rounds on ‘naysayers’ who predicted insurance start-up’s demise
...The company expected net cash flow to turn “consistently positive” in the first half of next year....
March 3, 2024
Climate change
EU regulator urges action on climate threat to insurance
...Continental European commercial property insurance prices rose at the start of the year for the 22nd consecutive quarter, according to an index from broker Marsh....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Disrupted Times
Tensions ratchet up between China and the west
...Cyber attackers are experimenting with new ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia and South America, before targeting higher-value companies in the West, according to a new report....
April 24, 2024
Behind the Money podcast24 min listen
Inside the battle for America’s West
...Clips from KGWN, Ludlow Music and The Richmond Organisation For further reading: Battle for the American West Seven states, 3,000 miles: a trip across the US energy divide Wyoming’s Carbon Valley aims...
April 17, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The painful rise in home insurance costs
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
April 1, 2024
Insurance
Scrapping the spreadsheet: start-ups take aim at an old insurance addiction
...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....
April 7, 2024
UK insurance industry
UK car insurance prices fall for first time in two years
...Insurance companies have lifted prices drastically in the past couple of years after spiralling inflation in their claims costs — as items such as car parts and second-hand cars became much more expensive...
April 18, 2024
Sylvie Kauffmann
Russia is filling the vacuum left by the west in the Sahel
...The US delegation, he said, had shown a “condescending attitude” and wanted to “deny the sovereign people of Niger the right to choose its partners and the types of partnerships likely to help it to truly...
April 10, 2024
Janan Ganesh
The west is suffering from its own success
...But a disease of success. To that extent, it is a parable for the west, where life can be too good for our own good. Consider another problem that has received the Haidt treatment: the culture wars....
April 9, 2024
News in-depthChinese economy
China warns west of ‘survival of the fittest’ as manufacturing boosts economy
...Focusing on high-end production of electric vehicles, solar panels and batteries, the government is rolling out domestic subsidy programmes for companies to upgrade their equipment and for consumers to buy...
April 17, 2024
UK insurance industry
UK home insurers hit by surge in weather damage claims
...The rising cost of home insurance and motor insurance has exacerbated cost-of-living pressures on households....
April 14, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one
...AXA Millésimes, the insurance company’s wine division, is far lower-key than Bernard Arnault’s vast LVMH empire, but has its own investment in Outpost on Howell Mountain, east of the valley....
April 20, 2024
UK insurance industry
Admiral signals end of car insurance price surge
...The company set a new target to generate £2bn of operating profit by 2026, and new guidance that the cash cost of its dividend should grow by a mid-single-digit percentage....
March 7, 2024
LexLloyd's of London Ltd
A Lloyd’s of London revival will require more nimble regulation Premium content
...Lloyd’s of London — the world’s oldest insurance market — acquired a reputation for inefficiency, complacency and boorish behaviour. Yet last year’s performance was the best for 16 years....
March 22, 2024
Lloyd's of London Ltd
Lloyd’s of London delivers best underwriting performance since 2007
...According to an index from insurance broker Marsh, global commercial insurance rates rose in the final three months of last year, the 25th straight quarter of increases....
March 7, 2024
Zurich Insurance Group AG
Zurich’s sale of $20bn life insurance book to PE-backed group collapses
...Regulatory scrutiny of the special risks presented by private equity ownership of life insurance companies has climbed, after Italy’s Eurovita — another life insurer majority owned through Cinven funds —...
January 30, 2024
ageas SA/NV
Direct Line rebuffs £3.1bn offer from Belgian insurer Ageas
...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
February 28, 2024
Private equity
Is private equity’s bet on life insurance turning sour?
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
March 25, 2024
Aviva PLC
Aviva returns to Lloyd’s of London for first time in two decades
...On Monday, the company announced it was buying Lloyd’s insurer Probitas for £242mn....
March 4, 2024
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
Direct Line launches £100mn saving plan as it fights takeover interest
...insurance profits as a proportion of revenues — of more than 10 per cent, its target....
March 21, 2024
Oil & Gas industry
Ithaca Energy agrees £750mn deal for most of Eni’s UK oil and gasfields
...Ithaca Energy has agreed a deal to acquire almost all of Eni’s UK oil and gasfields in a transaction worth about £750mn that will turn the London-listed company into one of the North Sea’s largest producers...
April 23, 2024

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