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...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
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...From what we see,the company’s current approach to fixed-cost allocation is completely appropriate, but the effects are magnified by effectively being a one-product company....
...Numerous insurers have sworn off the coal industry altogether and 13 companies (including Liberty Mutual, AXA and Allianz) have confirmed they are not underwriting the project, which would open up one of...
...Pension Insurance Company Epworth Investment Management Limited ERAFP Ethos Foundation Fidelity International Handelsbanken Asset Managment Hermes Equity Ownership Services HSBC Global Asset Management...
...That was the reaction of Tim Höttges, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, to news that Vodafone had agreed on Wednesday to acquire a series of continental assets from John Malone’s Liberty Global....
...European bank consolidation on the cards A trio of stories from continental Europe suggest that bank consolidation may well be picking up....
...So the FDIC as liquidator of Penn Square et al asserted that the “sales” of loan participations by Penn Square and the others were not “true sales” that gave rights to the underlying collateral (whatever...
...This column describes behaviour of insurance companies and pension funds using sectoral and micro-level data from the UK....
...“Very often there are technicalities which are the beginning of a failure, for example missing dates or signatures on mutual legal assistance requests,” says Rudolf Wyss, Switzerland’s former head of mutual...
...And this is why, finally, it’s funny in a way to see concerns that the bank may lose its ethical status under majority control of Aurelius et al, who are after all are hardly the most cuddly of customers...
...Six months later the bank failed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the regulator, sold WaMu to JPMorgan....
...Liberty Mutual, the US insurance company, has been selected as preferred bidder for Quinn Insurance, Ireland’s second-largest general insurer, which was placed in administration by the Irish regulator last...
...I will not go back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to cancel your policy, deny you coverage, or charge women differently from men....
...Marx is singing in his grave there in London as the US government now controls the auto, mortgage, insurance, banking, et al industries and he has not fired a shot....
...In 2007, when MBIA et al were still considered bullet-proof (at least as far the other rating agencies were concerned), founder Sean Egan projected massive losses for the monoline monoliths – rightly, as...
...Continental rift The tiny French islands of Saint Pierre et Miquelon in the north Atlantic south of Newfoundland are pressing Paris to file new claims to extend their rights on the area’s potentially oil-rich...
...Through such additional considerations, investors such as Buffett/Fischer/Greenblatt, et. al. seem to have dramatically improved upon Mr. Grahams original concept. Thank you....
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