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...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
...Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life insurance companies....
...Insurers, meanwhile, defend the use of funded reinsurance as one of a number of risk management tools that provide security to their customers’ benefits....
...The Debenhams deal has been made possible largely thanks to a substantial recent improvement in funding positions for defined benefit pension schemes, which promise members a pension for life — typically...
...A-Cap owns five insurers: Sentinel Security Life, Haymarket Insurance and Jazz Reinsurance in Utah, as well as Atlantic Coast Life Insurance and Southern Atlantic Re in South Carolina....
...About 45 per cent of the assets of private equity-linked US insurance companies are allocated to illiquid strategies including structured credit, mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities, compared with...
...“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....
...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....
...Often, travel insurance is included either as an extra benefit or service through your bank or credit card company as part of a package of services for which you pay a monthly or annual fee....
...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 —...
...Ageas said on Wednesday it was examining a possible offer for the company — made up of cash and its own newly issued stock — amounting to an implied value of 233p per Direct Line share, a premium of 43 per...
...Barclays describes the benefit to life insurers from this trade: The relaxed regulatory rule enables life insurers to reposition their bond portfolios at a lower upfront cost than prior to the change, from...
...the life insurance balance sheet,” he said....
...For Dai-ichi Life, acquisition of Benefit One would come as it explores other revenue channels to counter a shrinking insurance market at home....
...A body representing global insurance regulators has called for “enhanced supervision” of private capital-owned life insurers, citing potential “conflicts of interest” and “increased risk-taking”....
...L&G currently expects to do £8bn-£10bn of UK deals a year, but investors are already thinking ahead to when the pool of companies with a legacy defined benefit pension scheme has shrunk significantly....
...But the stock he purchased at the time was not that of Medivation. Rather he acquired shares of another life sciences company Incyte. Its shares jumped 8 per cent on the Medivation deal....
...In full-year results on Wednesday, the life insurance and asset management group reported a 45 per cent rise in new business profit — a measure of expected earnings from newly sold products — to $3.1bn,...
...A few weeks ago, a friend was about to have life-saving brain surgery in Boston when her operation was suddenly cancelled. The reason?...
...The “pot for life” proposals come alongside a broader push by the government to increase pension fund investment into areas that could help the economy, such as early-stage companies and infrastructure....
...Thirty years ago, the UK insurance industry was struggling to absorb another major risk, one that threatened life and limb as well as business....
...According to research from Canada Life, an insurance and retirement services company, more than half of UK adults do not have a will, and 13 per cent say they have no plans to write one....
...The company said it would raise payouts to shareholders to 75 per cent of underlying earnings with higher dividends and annual stock buybacks as it unveiled a three-year strategy alongside full-year earnings...
...A-Cap controls life insurers based in Utah and South Carolina. A-Cap chief executive Kenneth King late last month told insurance agents that AM Best’s downgrade was unwarranted....
...Some wanted to limit working hours in order to offset increases in the hourly minimum wage, and others sought to spend less on non-wage benefits such as sick pay, pension contributions and national insurance...
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