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...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
...Its Athene insurance company — built to profit from the disruption of the 2008 crisis — was Rowan’s brainchild, Black has said....
...That is well above the broader S&P 500 healthcare sector’s 16 times. That premium is not solid....
...“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” he declared, warning that companies flouting this principle would lose their social “licence”....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...However, these figures understate the risk to market dividends in our view given that they largely exclude Energy and Insurance where there have been few company comments at this stage....
...Winning more European insurance companies as clients is another target....
...“The man from the Pru” was for years a fixture of British society, going door to door to sell Prudential’s insurance policies....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...Tony Yates: Covid-19 has been a regressive shock to society, and since some of the distributional pathologies of society have a regional component, it is, and will continue to aggravate regional inequality...
...Some Republicans had criticised the subsidies, calling them “bailouts” for insurance companies....
...However, a revolt from companies and unions seems to have killed that idea. The reform appears underfunded by hundreds of billions....
...Anthem and Cigna shares have largely outperformed the S&P 500 index since Donald Trump’s election....
...Since Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, shares of the five biggest insurers have all outperformed the S&P 500....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...And last year, the Federal Housing Administration cut its mortgage insurance fee so as to save borrowers up to $900 a year....
...Angry voters in rich societies clearly feel that politicians duped them about the gains of globalisation over the past 30 years....
...Data from 54 Chinese companies that did overseas deals last year show that many are “highly leveraged”, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...The same holds for the companies you work for and the society in which you live....
...Bronwyn Curtis, Society of Business Economists If, as seems likely, some big companies and a lot of highly paid jobs leave the UK, there will be a hole in the tax take which will hard to fill....
...On the contrary, there is an incentive to migrate pre-Brexit to earn an active national insurance number....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent, helped by some encouraging earnings reports, after losing 2.7 per cent last week....
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