Life Insurance of North America

March 14, 2024

Is private equity’s bet on life insurance turning sour?

...Private capital investors have acquired more than $900bn in life and annuity assets in western Europe and North America, according to McKinsey & Company....

March 25, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

Insurance

Are lifers fueling the bond issuance boom?

...The point of the temporary accounting-rule change, from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, was to shield life insurers’ capital from losses caused by rising interest rates....

March 4, 2024

Insurance

Lloyd’s of London chief calls for quick insurance payouts on Baltimore bridge

...The chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market has said insurers should “just get on with it” and pay out for the Baltimore bridge collapse, rather than waiting for years of wrangling over...

March 28, 2024

Special ReportFuture of Water

US housing market belatedly wakes up to flood risk

...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for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....

March 22, 2024

ReviewArts

Let the Kids Dance! podcast review — when a city banned teenage kicks

...“What we have here is the plot of the movie Footloose [about a ban on dancing in a small town] in real life in Seattle,” he says....

April 8, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards North America

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Should I use the travel insurance provided by my credit card?

...My wife and I relied on our credit card insurance policies when travelling to the Middle East and North Africa to visit our family....

March 27, 2024

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...By the mid-1800s, the US bracketed the landmass called North America....

April 13, 2024

Aviva PLC

Aviva returns to Lloyd’s of London for first time in two decades

..., which is a significant provider of home, motor and life insurance, and has more than 18mn customers worldwide....

March 4, 2024

Travel

The dark day of my dreams

...The town of Waitsfield in Vermont lies five hours north of New York by car. Mad River runs through it; there is a library, a covered bridge and a beauty parlour. The church spire is painted white....

April 13, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...) — America’s Manufacturing Renaissance Will Create Few Good Jobs (Dani Rodrik for Project Syndicate) — Alex Spiro profile (New Yorker $) — Billionaire Boies (Puck $) — The life and death of Hollywood...

April 17, 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

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— The Japanese Bid for Foreign Bonds After the End of Yield Curve Control (Brad Setser and Alex Etra) — Why do people let their life insurance lapse?...

March 20, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The painful rise in home insurance costs

...In the UK, the median cost of home insurance policies rose 36 per cent over 2023, according to Go Compare. In America, some states have experienced 40 to 60 per cent increases since January last year....

April 1, 2024

Haiti

Haiti names transitional council to handle crisis

...The council — which includes Fritz Alphonse Jean, a former central bank governor, former senate president Edgard Leblanc, and insurance businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr — will also wield limited presidential...

April 17, 2024

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

LexInsurance

UK’s pension buyout boom leaves insurance investors wanting more Premium

...Its share price and that of bigger rival L&G have snaked sideways for more than a year. Just trades at a 60 per cent discount to book value. Its life insurance peers are closer to parity....

March 8, 2024

ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety

The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?

...life....

March 27, 2024

Travel

My cowgirl weekend in Fort Worth

...No part of America is mythologised quite as much as the West....

March 2, 2024

Sport

NBA player gets lifetime ban for gambling on basketball games

...The National Basketball Association has banned a player for life for gambling on the sport, the first time the league has handed down the maximum penalty since legal sports wagering began in the US....

April 17, 2024

ReviewFilm

Five stars for The Delinquents — a bank-robbery film that defies genres

...Morán is terrorised by the prison kingpin, a doppelgänger of the bank’s sourpuss boss Del Toro (both played by Germán De Silva) and, while at work, Román attracts the enmity of a hard-nut insurance investigator...

March 21, 2024

Stuart Kirk

How to invest without fear or FOMO

...Or crashing, say if inflation returns (America?) or geopolitics worsens. Any of these scenarios is possible....

April 13, 2024

News in-depthPrivate credit

The former rugby lawyer shaking up the world of private credit

...which is owned by MassMutual, one of America’s biggest life insurers....

April 7, 2024

ageas SA/NV

Direct Line rebuffs £3.1bn offer from Belgian insurer Ageas

...Brussels-based Ageas said a deal would strengthen its position in the European market and help it rebalance towards non-life insurance business....

February 28, 2024

Insurance

Insurers in talks to overhaul net-zero group after member exodus

...The SMI, a private-sector grouping of chief executives, highlighted what it believed to be insurance industry gaps in a report issued last year....

January 22, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...“I think the most educated women in America have heard of egg-freezing.”...

March 23, 2024

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