Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The syndicate will look to write business across multiple insurance and reinsurance lines, including political violence, marine, aviation and property catastrophe....
...The website also refers to an “Alba Developments” as the trading name for S Developments Limited, a company discussed by Burke and Wen in their WhatsApp messages as being the entity controlling Burke’s Scottish...
...US private equity firm General Atlantic....
...The initiative is backed by organisations including the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Royal Shakespeare Company, the Advertising Association, the National Theatre and the British Phonographic...
...The company then increased its position twice in 2018 and again two years later, becoming the bank’s largest shareholder. Its sale this week reduces the stake to 7.98 per cent from 8.01 per cent....
...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...
...Microsoft, which owns Excel, said the company remained a “key technology partner for companies across financial services broadly, and insurance specifically”....
...London remains an international hub for the sale of insurance and reinsurance, and has continued to grow despite competition from other markets such as Singapore and disruption from Brexit, which raised...
...They calculate that voters are more likely to punish nationalist incompetence in Edinburgh than Tory chaos in London....
...and workplace insurance products such as pensions....
...But a less-followed risk is adding to unease at companies offering life and health insurance: scientists’ warnings, and research findings, that a warming climate is causing an increasing number of excess...
...“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....
...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...“The private healthcare system is very small and limited in scope,” said Sally Warren, director of policy at The King’s Fund, a health and social care charity....
...Many different agendas bumping in to each other — and a disordered UK market in regard to remuneration. Duncan Reed Director, Condign Board Consulting London SW1, UK...
...Finding enough of these could get harder, especially as competition and scrutiny mount. Royal London, another UK life insurer, said Friday it would enter the bulk annuities market in earnest....
...Both are alumni of consultancy McKinsey and came to insurance as outsiders — Wilson’s first job in insurance was at L&G, joining from events company UBM....
...However, Labour said it was committed to continuing the small-scale “open access” model under which companies — such as Heathrow Express and the London-Edinburgh service Lumo — pay a fee to access the rail...
...Proponents of the system, which would allow the London Stock Exchange and others to apply for permission to run Pisces trading venues, argue that it will boost the pipeline of London initial public offerings...
...Lobbyists try to sweeten deal for Labour insiders | Lobbying companies are paying a premium for political operatives with Labour expertise and contacts ahead of the UK general election....
...London-based Argus Media has been valued at $4.6bn including debt after a deal that will see its chief executive take a majority stake in the energy and commodity data provider....
...Hunt told the BBC that he hoped to continue as chancellor after the general election. His spokesman declined to comment....
...linking London to Edinburgh....
...London-based PIC has more than 300,000 policyholders amassed through so-called bulk annuity deals, where it takes over pension fund liabilities and the assets backing them from their sponsoring companies...
...In his Budget on Wednesday, Hunt announced an extension of the Energy Profits Levy on oil and gas companies by 12 months despite opposition from Scottish Conservatives....
International Edition