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...Its life insurance peers are closer to parity. One investor concern is the capital-hungry nature of bulk annuity business....
...Last month, Chubb’s chief executive Evan Greenberg told analysts that the company’s “exposure is within what we would contemplate and there’s nothing outsize to us”....
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