Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Shinichiro Funabiki, chief executive of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, told the Financial Times the company had decided to focus its investment plans on the UK because of London’s primacy in analysing complex...
...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...This part of the insurance industry has been hit by four consecutive years of outsized losses from extreme weather....
...The so-called pensions lifeboat takes over the assets and liabilities of failed companies’ pension schemes....
...Ingosstrakh, which evolved out of the Soviet-era Chief Agency of Foreign Insurance, is one of Russia’s largest insurers. Insurance for shipping is a small part of its portfolio....
...The company expected net cash flow to turn “consistently positive” in the first half of next year....
...Wadhwani began his role in February, but has only started publicly outlining his plans for Prudential in the past week, after the company published half-year results....
...On the regulatory side, the forum said it was considering what it called a “sandbox” idea, where the industry and its regulator, the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority, could “discuss and...
...Prudential’s new business profit growth in this segment has been brisk. Moreover, Chinese investors are using insurance to diversify assets. But caution is warranted....
...Analysts at Bank of America said the deal should not worsen the outlook for capital returns at Aviva....
...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 —...
...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....
...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....
...The BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority said on Tuesday that it had imposed the second-largest penalty in its history after HSBC failed to correctly identify customer deposits eligible for protection under...
...Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
...The Belgian company reinforced the idea that this is a cut-price, opportunistic bid, with a second cash-and-shares proposal of about 239p per share....
...Indeed, UniCredit will probably buy back and consolidate its insurance businesses, at present held within joint ventures with insurance companies....
...Speaking to the Financial Times, David Howden, founder and chief executive of insurance and reinsurance broker Howden, predicted the price of business cover would flatten this year as the supply of insurance...
...Bulk annuity sales, as these deals are known, should pick up from around £28bn in 2022 to £80bn by 2027 say pension consultants LCP — good news, you’d think, for insurance companies that specialise in annuities...
...The mechanics of the NAIC’s rule change (as described by Barclays, Bank of America, regulators, industry groups and various other sources) are . . . not especially simple....
...The analysts at Employ America have also highlighted auto insurance’s role in the recent gap between the CPI and the Fed’s favoured PCE indicator — and reckon that part of the gap could very possibly narrow...
...The biggest backer of the group of companies was the now-collapsed Greensill Capital....
...Prudential suffered a steep drop in profits in Hong Kong last year as pandemic rules prevented mainland Chinese customers from crossing the border to buy insurance policies in the territory, an important...
...“Winner” indicates that the organisation won an FT Innovative Lawyers North America award for 2023. The full list of award winners is available here....
International Edition